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Actors: Sharyn Moffett, Regis Toomey, Madge Meredith, Walter Reed, Una O'Connor
Synopsis: A remake of 1934's Wednesday's Child (itself based on a play by Leopold L. Atlas) RKO's Child of Divorce stars 11-year-old Sharyn Moffett in the title role. When her parents (Regis Toomey and Madge Meredith) break up, Sharyn finds herself in the middle of a bitter custody battle. It soom becomes Read More
Actors: Burgess Meredith, Irene Hervey, Barry Fitzgerald, Raymond Walburn, Robert Armstrong
Synopsis: In this crime drama set on the seedy waterfront of San Francisco, a longshoreman studies in his spare time to become an aircraft mechanic. He is also in love with a barmaid who works at her father's saloon. One day at the bar, the longshoreman gets into a fight with a man who is later found dead. Read More
Actors: Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Allen Jenkins
Synopsis: To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if not close buddies), 20th Century-Fox cast both ladies in their 1940 "inventory" musical Tin Pan Alley. Set in the years just prior to and during WW1, the film casts Faye and Read More
Actors: Adrienne Ames, Craig Reynolds, Esther Ralston, George Meeker, Pert Kelton
Synopsis: An excellent cast elevates the quality of this ultra-cheap independent effort. Adrienne Ames stars as Helene, the owner of a posh beauty salon and reducing parlor. Most of Helene's clients are from the society's upper crust, but that doesn't prevent them from dishing out vitriolic gossip with Read More
Actors: William Hall, Jane Wyman, Esther Ralston, Leon Ames, Ben Alexander
Synopsis: Spy Ring (aka International Spy) was designed as a trial balloon for new Universal contractee William Hall. He is cast as Captain Todd Hayden, star player of an army-camp polo team. What Hayden doesn't know is that some of his polo cronies are enemy spies, anxious to steal the plans for a Read More
Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, Edgar Bergen, George Murphy, Rita Johnson
Synopsis: A master blend of high comedy and tense emotional drama, A Letter of Introduction reteams Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, and Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, who'd previously costarred in the negligible Goldwyn Follies. Menjou plays John Mannering, a Barrymoresque actor who years earlier had Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Regis Toomey, John Farrell MacDonald, Oscar Apfel, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Released by Monogram in 1937, Shadows of the Orient was actually produced independently several years earlier by Larry Darmour. Arrested in a raid on a Chinese gambling joint, judge's daughter Viola Avery (Esther Ralston) is rescued from disgrace by King Moss (Sidney Blackmer), owner of the Read More
Actors: Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston, Eleanor Hunt, Vince Barnett, Claudia Dell
Synopsis: We're in the Legion Now stars two veterans of the silent screen, Reginald Denny and Esther Ralston, both of whom were old enough to know better. Denny and comedian Vince Barnett play Dan and Spike, a couple of American gangsters who use the Foreign Legion as a hideout. Amazingly, the two crooks Read More
Actors: Frank Hawks, Dorothy Sebastian, Rex Lease, Guy Bates Post, Kenneth Harlan
Synopsis: Real-life flying ace Frank Hawks stars in the 15-chapter Columbia serial The Mysterious Pilot. Running the gamut of emotions from A to B, Hawks is cast as Jim Dorn, mapmaker for the Royal Canadian Air Force. With his sidekicks, a mountie named Kansas (Rex Lease) and an Indian named Luke (Yakima Read More
Actors: Frank Buck, Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston, Charlotte Henry
Synopsis: Carefully measuring the success of Republic's Clyde Beatty serial Darkest Africa, Columbia top-billed wild animal hunter Frank "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Buck in the 15-chapter Jungle Menace. The story takes place in the mythical Asian province of Seemang, where rubber planter Edward Elliot (John St. Polis Read More
Actors: John Boles, Doris Nolan, Walter Pidgeon, Tala Birell, Alan Mowbray
Synopsis: Former musical comedy star Edward N. Buzzell called the shots on the Universal programmer As Good as Married. John Boles plays a wealthy businessman whose inability to keep his love life in order threatens both his financial and emotional well-being. Faithful secretary Doris Nolan is determined to Read More
Actors: Conrad Nagel, Kay Linaker, Donald Cook, Esther Ralston, Harry Stubbs
Synopsis: The ambitious Republic melodrama The Girl From Mandalay was based on Tiger Valley, a novel by Reginald Campbell. The title character is Mandalay resort entertainer Jeanie, played by Kay Linaker. When his aristocratic sweetheart gives him the air, Britisher John Foster (Conrad Nagel) marries Jeanie Read More
Actors: Jean Hersholt, Rochelle Hudson, Helen Vinson, George "Slim" Summerville, Robert Kent
Synopsis: This second of 20th Century-Fox's Dionne Quintuplets vehicles brings back Jean Hersholt as kindly Canadian obstetrician Dr. Dafoe. The good doctor faces none of the professional crises that plagued him in the first Dionne picture The Country Doctor. Instead, a testimonial dinner is arranged for Read More
Actors: John Halliday, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, C. Henry Gordon, Frieda Inescort
Synopsis: Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned screenwriter played by Robert Cummings (whose dialogue anticipates the lines spoken by William Holden in 1950's Sunset Boulevard), the focus of the story is John Halliday as a Read More
Actors: Roger Pryor, June Clayworth, Esther Ralston, Hugh O'Connell, Ralph Forbes
Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a man marries his Russian lover and discovers that she has a large extended family. He is utterly overwhelmed and decides that the only way he will be able to free himself of their burden will be to make them famous. Along the way, he keeps running into the bold lover of Read More
Actors: Evelyn Venable, Victor Jory, Esther Ralston, Ralph Forbes, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Grand Hotel meets Twentieth Century in this Mascot feature. Evelyn Venable stars as Patricia Wells, a tempestuous stage actress who impulsively elopes on opening night of her newest play. Wells and her new fiancée Fred Arnold (Ralph Forbes) book adjoining compartments on the Streamline Express Read More
Actors: Norman Foster, Evelyn Knapp, Esther Ralston, Eric Linden, Purnell Pratt
Synopsis: Perhaps the best of Mascot Pictures' feature-film releases, Ladies Crave Excitement is also one of the fastest 69 minutes ever put on film. Norman Foster and Eddie Nugent play Don and Bob, a pair of ace newsreel cameraman for The March of Events, forever keeping one step ahead of their Read More
Actors: William Haines, Esther Ralston, Conrad Nagel, Armida, Edgar Kennedy
Synopsis: Perhaps Mascot Pictures' The Marines are Coming would have been more credible had it been made 10 years earlier. Stars William Haines, Esther Ralston and Conrad Nagel are game, but all three are a bit long in tooth for their characters. In a throwback to his silent films, Haines plays a wise-guy Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Onslow Stevens, Sidney Blackmer, Toby Wing, Eddie Nugent
Synopsis: In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden cache of loot. Unfortunately, something goes wrong during the trip and the pilots must land the plane in the Arizona desert during a terrible storm. Read More
Actors: Willard Mack, Ben Lyon, Esther Ralston, Hobart Bosworth
Synopsis: Writer-director-star Willard Mack had been dead and gone for several years by the time Together We Live managed to attain a theatrical release. A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement in Read More
Actors: Edmund Lowe, Jean Dixon, Esther Ralston, Victor Varconi, Verna Hillie
Synopsis: Mr. Dynamite was based on the Dashiel Hammett novel On the Make. Edmund Lowe plays jaunty private eye T. N. Thompson, or T.N.T. ("Mistery Dynamite", get it?) Nothing pleases Thompson more than running rings around the San Francisco police force, headed by the dyspeptic detective King (Robert Gleckler Read More
Actors: Roger Pryor, Heather Angel, Victor Moore, Esther Ralston, Ruth Donnelly
Synopsis: Universal's Romance in the Rain is a satire of network radio, a popular target of early-'30s movies. On behalf of dithery magazine publisher J. Franklyn Blank (Victor Moore), press agent Charlie (Roger Pryor) stages a "Cinderella contest" in search of new female talent for the airwaves. The winner Read More
Actors: Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone, Edward Arnold, Esther Ralston
Synopsis: MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield unexpected delights. It all begins when Sadie McKee (Joan Crawford) is brought to big bad old New York by glib vaudevillian Tommy (Gene Raymond), only to be unceremoniously dumped Read More
Actors: Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, Dorothy Revier, Lawrence Grant
Synopsis: After directing three of Universal's finest horror films, James Whale shifted gears with the elegant romantic comedy By Candlelight. Though quite miscast, Paul Lukas successfully conveys the role of Josef, ultra-dutiful valet to the libidinous Count Von Bommer (Nils Asther). Falling in love with Read More
Actors: Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jack LaRue, Noah Beery, Sr.
Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1923, Zane Grey's To the Last Man manages to pack plenty of A-level production values into what was essentially a B-picture budget. In the years following the Civil War, Kentucky man Lynn Hayden (Randolph Scott) moves his family to Nevada, partly to start life anew, but mostly Read More
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Joan Barry, Cedric Hardwicke, Donald Calthrop, Frank Vosper, Hugh Williams
Synopsis: Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various passengers of a European express train. On this particular run, the train is a veritable hotbed of intrigue, with crooks and blackmail victims seemingly in every coach. Among Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Alexander Kirkland, Hale Hamilton, Gavin Gordon, Don Alvarado
Synopsis: Before it became one of Hollywood's busiest B-picture mills, Monogram Pictures had a fondness for literary adaptations (The Moonstone, Jane Eyre etc.) Monogram's 1933 Black Beauty was, of course, based on the classic novel by Anna Sewell. Only a few of the many anecdotal adventures of the titular Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Basil Rathbone, Jean Adrienne, Marie Burke, George Curzon
Synopsis: The German comedy Opera Ball is the model upon which this film is based. Several seedy adventures erupt, as when Basil Rathbone thinks he is engaging the diplomat's wife in an affair, but it is actually the maid. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Laura La Plante, Patsy Ruth Miller, Spencer Charters
Synopsis: Five characters find themselves playing a lively game of musical beds in this saucy pre-Code comedy. Richard (Edward Everett Horton) is a well-known lawyer who has a rather surprising reputation as a ladykiller. Felix (also played by Horton) is a nightclub impressionist who wants Richard's Read More
Actors: Lawrence Tibbett, Esther Ralston, Roland Young, Cliff Edwards, Purnell Pratt
Synopsis: The third of Metropolitan Opera star Lawrence Tibbett's MGM vehicles, The Prodigal casts the star as Jeffry, the proverbial black sheep of an aristocratic Southern family. After several years on the bum with his buddies Doc (Roland Young) and Snipe (Cliff Edwards), Jeffry returns home, where he Read More
Actors: Emil Jannings, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Douglas Haig
Synopsis: Director Lewis Milestone presided over The Betrayal, a part-talkie which represented the only screen teaming of Hollywood's Gary Cooper and Germany's Emil Jannings. Second-billed Esther Ralston stars as Swiss peasant girl Vroni, who enjoys a blissful summertime romance with vacationing Viennese Read More
Actors: George Bancroft, Esther Ralston, Warner Oland, Raymond Hatton, Dorothy Revier
Synopsis: In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their beloved son had died in his arms during a battle. The major then falls in love with the late soldier's sister and decides to accept a position in Read More
Actors: Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, O.P. Heggie, Arthur Hoyt
Synopsis: In his second talking picture, Richard Dix is cast as British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat, at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan (Esther Ralston), the wife of his commanding officer (O.P. Heggie), Yeullat does the gentlemanly thing by suppressing his own emotions for the Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, James Hall, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Emily Fitzroy, Fred Kohler
Synopsis: A lesser-known effort from director Josef Von Sternberg, The Case of Lena Smith has been unfairly chastised for all the wrong reasons. It has been branded a financial failure, but in fact its comparatively small box-office take was due to the decision by Paramount Pictures to withdraw several of Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston
Synopsis: Like many of Esther Ralston's late-1920s vehicles, Love and Learn is primarily an excuse to show off its star in as few clothes as possible. In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles (Lane Chandler), heroine Nancy Blair (Ralston) gets wind of the opposition's scheme to ruin Cowles' Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Neil Hamilton, Sojin, Charles Sellon, Lawrence Grant
Synopsis: Esther Ralston stars as Diana, the American houseguest of the stuffy Earl of Rochester (Lawrence Grant). Finding her host and her surroundings deadly dull, Diana isn't exactly looking forward to her impending marriage to the Earl's son Roderick (Neil Hamilton). When master criminal Chang-Tzo (Sojin Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Reed Howes, Hobart Bosworth, George B. French, Alan Roscoe
Synopsis: The fertile creative mind of director Gregory LaCava is well in evidence throughout Half a Bride. Esther Ralston stars as Patience Winslow, an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn't love. While honeymooning on her yacht without her new husband, Patience is marooned Read More
Actors: Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Norman Trevor
Synopsis: Kitty Flanders (Yvonne Pelletier), Jean Waddington and Ted Larrabee (Don Marion) are all "children of divorce" -- the two girls are left in a convent school by their mothers and Ted's upbringing is sketchy at best. When the three of them grow up, Ted (now played by Gary Cooper) falls deeply in Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Neil Hamilton, Maude Truax, Romaine Fielding, El Brendel
Synopsis: Originally titled 10 Modern Commandments, this sophisticated romantic comedy-drama was the third directorial effort by Dorothy Arzner -- not to mention her third picture of 1927. Unabashedly a "woman's" picture, this is the story of Kitten O'Day (Esther Ralston), a humble maidservant in her aunt's Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Richard Arlen, Ford Sterling, Eulalie Jensen, Natalie Kingston
Synopsis: Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the title by donning a fetching one-piece bathing suit. The main story concerns wise-guy insurance salesman Richard Arlen, who through a combination of hard work and sheer gall Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Raymond Hatton, Edward Martindel, Agostino Borgato
Synopsis: Former film editor Dorothy Arzner made her directorial debut with the Esther Ralston vehicle Fashions for Women. Ralston stars as Celeste de Givray, renowned throughout Europe as the most beautiful and best-dressed model in all Paris. Her press agent DuPont (Raymond Hatton) concocts an Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Neil Hamilton, Nicholas Soussanin, Arlette Marchal, Arthur Houseman
Synopsis: The Paramount backstage drama Spotlight was based on Footlights, a novel by Rita Weiman. Hoping to become a star, Lizzie Stokes (Esther Ralston) haunts the offices of wheeler-dealer theatrical manager Daniel Hoffman (Nicholas Soussanin). Though he's not interested in Lizzie per se, Hoffman manages Read More
Actors: Richard Dix, Harry Beresford, Robert Craig
Synopsis: The Quarterback is Jack Stone (Richard Dix), captain of the 1899 Colton College football team. Though by rights he should have graduated years before, Jack insists upon remaining at Colton until his team can defeat their bitter rivals at State University. Even the death of his wife Louise (Esther Ralston Read More
Actors: Jack Holt, Ernest Torrence, Esther Ralston, Louise Dresser, Ward Crane
Synopsis: Even though Big Bill Devens (Ernest Torrence) is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. His wife walked out on him 20 years before and his daughter, Moira (Esther Ralston), believes she is dead. Moira falls in love with Hugh Dillon, a handsome young attorney (Jack Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Lawrence Gray, Ford Sterling, Louise Brooks
Synopsis: The physical attributes of lovely leading lady Esther Ralston are amply displayed in American Venus. This satire of beauty contests gets under way when two competing cosmetic companies seek the endorsement of the winner of the American Venus pageant (Ralston, of course). Complication ensue when it Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Charles Farrell, Wallace Beery, George Bancroft, George Godfrey
Synopsis: Long derided by film historians as a talented but visually unimaginative director, James Cruze made up for any and all past artistic sins with his rousing Old Ironsides. Per its title, this 11-reel silent film is set at the time of Stephen Decatur's defeat of the Barbary pirates in Tripoli. Read More
Actors: Betty Bronson, Tom Moore, Esther Ralston
Synopsis: As a whimsical adaption of James M. Barrie's stage version of the Cinderella story, this film was not immediately appreciated for the magic created by its cinematography. It has become a classic masterpiece, in the genre of similar films like Peter Pan. The story begins with a very young woman (Betty Bronson Read More
Actors: Constance Bennett, Myrtle Stedman, George Irving, Esther Ralston
Synopsis: While his reputation has faded next to stronger talents such as Cecil B. DeMille, Erich Von Stroheim, and King Vidor, James Cruze was one of the most popular directors of the 1920s. He is the biggest name associated with this drama. The picture was based on a successful Broadway play by Lewis Read More
Actors: Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Erwin Connelly, Ethel Wales, Gertrude Short
Synopsis: This satirical film was based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Neil McRae (Edward Everett Horton) is a composer who, instead of finishing his symphony, is forced to write jazz music to live. He also has a pupil, Gladys Cady (Gertrude Short), who comes from an eccentric nouveau Read More
Actors: Warner Baxter, Esther Ralston, Kathlyn Williams, Edwards Davis, William Austin
Synopsis: Esther Ralston, who plays a nice chorus girl in this comedy-drama, is upstaged by Margaret Livingston, who has a much-flashier role as her not-so-nice friend. Ralston is Alice O'Neil, who is in love with Bertie Lenox (Joseph Striker), the son of a nouveau riche family. His sister Marian Read More
Actors: Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edna May Oliver, Tom Findley, Anthony Jowitt
Synopsis: If the plot to this breezy romantic comedy sounds like something that would have starred the late Wallace Reid, there's a reason -- the story was penned by Byron Morgan, who wrote most of Reid's racing films. Dandy Farnan (Richard Dix) works in a department store demonstrating camping gear. He Read More
Synopsis: American western star Ken Maynard's first starring vehicle -- filmed on a shoestring budget at California's St. Francis Dam -- $50,000 Reward was a not too exciting tale of a cowboy who inherits a piece of valuable property and is quickly besieged by a money-hungry villain. To generate some Read More
Actors: Florence Vidor, Tom Moore, Esther Ralston, Ford Sterling, Lucy Beaumont
Synopsis: Former Mack Sennett comedian Ford Sterling practically steals this show in this Malcolm St. Clair-directed picture, which Moving Picture World called, "As spicy as a French domestic farce and yet as clean as a hound's tooth." William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy Read More
Actors: Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Cora Williams, Eli Nadel
Synopsis: Richard Dix and Esther Ralston starred together in several films during the latter half of the 1920s. This Western-comedy was especially good, due in no small part to lively direction by Gregory LaCava. Bill Dana, a member of New York society (Dix), meets Molly (Ralston) when he saves her from Read More
Actors: Alice Joyce, Mary Brian, Neil Hamilton, Esther Ralston, Anthony Jowitt
Synopsis: This romance was based on the best-selling novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick. While serving in the Great War, Owen Bradley (Anthony Jowett) tells his fiancée, Toppie Westmacott (Esther Ralston), that his leave has been canceled so that he can spend time with the seductive Madame Vervier (Alice Read More
Synopsis: Ken Maynard's star was still on the ascendant when he made this action-packed Western. It's the usual tale about "the papers" -- the hero's attempt to hold onto them and the villain's desire to get them. The girl in the story is Esther Ralston, who played Mrs. Darling in Peter Pan the same year Read More
Actors: Tom Mix, Esther Ralston, Frank Currier
Synopsis: Tom Mix always had a love for comedy -- if not always the wherewithal -- and The Heart Buster must have disappointed the action fans among his public. The film was based on an original story by George Scarborough, The Love Bandit, and depicts the hero's trouble convincing a girl (Esther Ralston) Read More
Actors: Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, Cyril Chadwick, Virginia Brown Faire, Anna May Wong
Synopsis: When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter Pan, made famous on the stage by Maude Adams. Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and even Gloria Swanson thought they were perfect for the role, but Barrie's own choice was Betty Bronson Read More
Synopsis: Herbert Rawlinson starred in this silent, action melodrama based on Gerald Beaumont's Red Book Magazine serial. A tough neighborhood cop, John Francis Foley loses his nerve when he believes that he almost killed Tillie Miller (Ruth Dwyer), the girl he loves. In reality, Tillie's injuries were Read More
Actors: Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Creighton Hale, Adolphe Menjou
Synopsis: Viennese doctor Monte Blue is madly in love with his wife Florence Vidor--so much so that many suspect that they aren't married at all! Vidor's best friend Marie Prevost is an incurable coquette; Marie's divorce-bound husband Adolphe Menjou hires detective Harry Myers to keep tabs on his wife. Read More
Actors: Hoot Gibson, Esther Ralston, Mathilde Brundage, DeWitt Jennings
Synopsis: Based on a magazine serial by Gene Markey, this film was turned into a perfect vehicle for Universal's lackadaisical cowboy hero Hoot Gibson. The bespectacled, dandified son of a veteran military officer (DeWitt Jennings), Geoffrey Arbuthnot Islip, nicknamed Blinky Gibson, is the butt of many Read More
Actors: Roy Stewart, Esther Ralston, Jere Austin, Jack Mower, Verne Winter
Synopsis: Based on novelist William McLeod Raine's A Texas Ranger, Pure Grit starred the now completely forgotten Roy Stewart as a Texas lawman aiding a schoolmarm (Esther Ralston) who is being victimized by an imposter posing as her long-lost brother. The gallant ranger manages to get the goods on the Read More
Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Eileen Percy, George Cowl, June Elvidge, Lincoln Stedman
Synopsis: It seems like nearly everything written by George Barr McCutcheon found its way to the silent screen. Castle Craneycrow was one of his lesser novels, and this Universal picture starring the studio's matinee idol Herbert Rawlinson as the dashing hero, was one of the lesser adaptations. While on a Read More
Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Dorothy Manners, Esther Ralston, Eddie Gribbon
Synopsis: This mediocre comedy-drama starred Herbert Rawlinson as an impoverished nobleman turned pugilist. Lord Waring (Frank Currier) is broke so he sends his son Cecil (Rawlinson) to America to marry a girl from a wealthy family. Cecil is less than thrilled with the situation, especially after meeting Read More
Actors: Gladys Walton, Lewis Sargent, Robert Ellis, Sidney Bracey
Synopsis: Gladys Walton plays an inept newspaper reporter in this mediocre farce comedy. Leslie Adams (Walton) is secretary to the city editor of a newspaper, but she longs to write. She begs her boss for a chance, so he sends her out to cover a crowd of society people who throw wild parties. Her assignment Read More
Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Esther Ralston, Alfred Fisher, David Torrence, Lionel Belmore
Synopsis: Richard (Herbert Rawlinson), the son of Judge Garbin (David Torrence), is railroaded into prison. He angrily swears vengeance against Corton (Mike Donlin), the man who sent him and his prison mate up the river. Escaping, he returns to his father, who sends him to finish out his prison term at the Read More
Actors: Edward McWade, Esther Ralston
Synopsis: Esther Ralston, then a hard-working, up-and-coming actress and not the star she would later become, is featured in this low-budget program feature which came from Certified Pictures. Character actor Edward McWade is the unlikely choice to play an evil Asian, which he does with all the clichés and Read More
Actors: Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, Gladys Brockwell, George Siegmann, Lionel Belmore
Synopsis: Ostensibly a vehicle for Jackie Coogan, the 1922 Oliver Twist refuses to realign the Charles Dickens novel to accommodate the personality of its star. This Frank Lloyd-directed silent film is one of the most faithful of all cinematic adaptations of the Dickens work. The orphaned Oliver, labelled a Read More
Actors: Claude Gillingwater, Richard Tucker, Dana Todd, Cullen Landis, Kate Lester
Synopsis: After the success of Humoresque, pictures that extolled the virtues of dear old mom and pop were rampant. Mom was featured in the majority of these sentimental dramas, but occasionally dad would have his day, as he did here. The Goldwyn studios took care to make this a classy production -- Rupert Hughes Read More
Synopsis: From the beginning of her film career, Billie Dove showed a knack for playing chorus girls (it only made sense since she was a former Follies beauty), so in her first starring part for Metro, guess what her role was? Eve Allison (Dove) is that eternal movie cliché, the country girl who comes to Read More
Synopsis: One of the silent era's great beauties, Esther Ralston, began her screen career in minor oaters like Crossing Trails. The future Mrs. Darling (in the still breathtaking 1924 version of Peter Pan) plays Helen Stratton, a young girl falsely accused of murder and on the lam from the Law. She obtains Read More
Actors: Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller, Tom Wilson
Synopsis: The Kid was Charles Chaplin's first self-produced and directed feature film; 1914's 6-reel Tillie's Punctured Romance was a Mack Sennett production in which Chaplin merely co-starred. The story "with a smile and perhaps a tear," begins with unwed mother Edna Purviance leaving the Charity Read More
Synopsis: According to this Lois Weber production, men don't really seem to know what they want at all -- first Frank (J. Frank Glendon) wants to be an inventor. Then he wants to marry his childhood sweetheart, Hallie (the lovely Claire Windsor). Then he wants children. Then, when his inventions bring him Read More
Synopsis: The pivotal role of the vamp in this Lois Weber production was played by a cinematic newcomer "somewhat dubiously named" (to quote Variety) Mona Lisa. When Leila (Mona Lisa) and her husband (Howard Gay) come to a small seaside resort, her selfish and evil ways ruin the lives of several of the Read More
Actors: George H. Reed, Lewis Sargent
Synopsis: There are no huge names attached to this silent version of the classic Mark Twain story (although director William Desmond Taylor would become famous a couple of years later when he was mysteriously murdered). But stars weren't necessary; everyone in America had read the book. Huck Finn and Tom Read More
Synopsis: James Kirland (Harold A. Miller) lives on a large estate with his five children. The oldest son, William, drinks too much and has a penchant for trouble. His sister Diana (Ora Carew) tries to keep an eye on him and one day discovers him keeping company with the Marquise D'Irancy (Bonnie Hill). Read More
Synopsis: Completed in late 1917, the Lois Weber-Phillips Smalley production For Husbands Only received its first New York playdate in September of 1918. Reminiscent of George Bernard Shaw's Fanny's First Play, the story revolves around a wealthy playboy (Lewis Cody) who stages amateur theatricals in his Read More
Synopsis: The busy husband-wife directorial team of Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber launched their surprisingly brief 1918 production schedule with The Doctor and the Woman. Adapted from K, a novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, the film starred Mildred Harris as the daughter of a reclusive minister. Hoping to Read More
Synopsis: World Films' Deep Purple was based on the Paul Armstrong/Wilson Mizner play of the same name. James Young warmed the director's chair, while his wife Clara Kimball Young played the leading role of innocent country gal Doris Moore. This was curious, in that Doris was probably the least interesting Read More
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