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1945
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You Quiero Ser Bataclana translates roughly as I Want to Be Chorus Girl. Popular Latin American radio songstress Nini...
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1941
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Western Limited is another of the "Grand Hotel on wheels" films so popular in the early 1930s. Stealing a valuable diamond at...
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1932
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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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Ruth Springer
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1932
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Elise Mowbry
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1931
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Mrs. Maurrant
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1931
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Mme. Muskrat
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1930
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Dixie Lee
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1930
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Star Lon Chaney Sr. and director Tod Browning bade adieu to the silent-movie era with 1929's Where East is East. His face...
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1929
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In his later interviews, director Allan Dwan seldom had anything to say about his 1928 opus Whip Woman -- and who could blame...
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Sari
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1928
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1928
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The heavy-breathing Singapore Mutiny owes a great deal to such previous passion-in-the-tropics efforts as Rain and...
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1928
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George O'Brien, Fox Studios' general-purpose leading man, heads the cast of Honor Bound. The story opens in the bedroom of...
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Evelyn Mortimer
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1928
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1928
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Filmed on location in Manhattan, the 1927 silent New York explores themes later developed more fully in such films as...
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Angie Miller
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1927
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Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no...
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Lucretia Borgia
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1926
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When a film vehicle was needed for heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, his producers wisely decided to use the story from a...
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1925
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This low-budgeter was adapted from A Wise Son, a novel by Charles Sherman. Bryant Washburn plays wealthy wastrel Hal Whitney,...
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Helen Maynard
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1925
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"Derr iss too many qveens and not enough qveens!" That was Ernst Lubitsch's response when he turned down the directing...
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1924
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Mary Standish
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1924
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Estelle Taylor stars as a stenographer who marries her boss in this maudlin melodrama. When her husband is called away to...
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1924
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Gloria Dawn
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1924
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Although the story to this romantic adventure was founded on the Manuel Penella opera El Gato Montes, its utter lack of...
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Marcheta
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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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Miriam, sister of Moses
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1923
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Estelle Taylor, the off-screen wife of boxer Jack Dempsey, starred in this silent whodunit from newcomer Columbia Pictures....
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1923
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Madalyn Harlan (Estelle Taylor), the daughter of wealthy socialites, falls in love with the chauffeur Jerry Ryan...
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Madalyn Harlan
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1923
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This adventurous drama of Russia's revolutionary days was based on the stage play by Earl Carroll. Wallace Beery -- at the...
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Princess Annia
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1923
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On the verge of leaving Fox Studios for MGM, silent romantic star John Gilbert appeared in California Romance. Gilbert plays...
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Dolores
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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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Rosita Mendez
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1922
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While no one could ever call the cast to this melodrama "all star," it certainly features some of the best second-stringers...
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Mame Mulvey
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1922
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With the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle scandal and the William Desmond Taylor murder still fresh in people's minds, it's a wonder...
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Gilda Fontaine
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1922
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aka The Count of Monte Cristo Much of John Gilbert's early work as a leading man was done at the Fox Studios. He made...
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Mercedes, Countess de Morcerf
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1922
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Hiram Scudder (Tyrone Power, Sr.) is a blind cobbler, whose son Tommy (Tom Douglas) is in love with the pretty but ambitious...
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Peggy Hawthorne
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1921
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This picture, in three parts, was promoted as being true-to-life, but judging from the reviews, it's obviously just...
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1920
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