The third of four films bearing the title of The Perils of Pauline, this musical biopic purports to tell the life story of...
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1947
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True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a...
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1943
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and...
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1943
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A woman's attempt to disguise herself as an underage girl mushrooms into a series of humorous deceptions in this romantic...
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1942
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The Lady Bodyguard of the title is pretty but somewhat physically frail A. C. Baker (Anne Shirley). An advertising...
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1942
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Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service....
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1942
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In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from...
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1941
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1939
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Finishing out her Paramount Pictures contract, opera star Gladys Swarthout sings not a single note in the tense little...
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1939
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In this comedy, an American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in...
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1938
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1938
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If I Were King is a delightful costume adventure tale set in 14th century France, during the reign of Louis XI, and inspired...
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1938
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Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of...
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1938
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The legendary Cocoanut Grove nightclub is the setting for this all-star Paramount musical. Fred MacMurray heads the cast as...
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1938
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1938
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This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
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1938
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and...
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter...
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1937
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In the fourth of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" action-thrillers, the intrepid adventurer (John Howard) makes the grizzly...
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1937
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Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an...
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1937
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Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar,...
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1937
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In this sports drama, framed by the annual Army-Navy football game, a freshman footballer at the Naval Academy falls in love...
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1937
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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With customary lack of restraint, Bela Lugosi tore into his role of Professor Strang, a foreign agent masquerading as a wax...
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1933
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Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and...
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1933
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In this war comedy, the reluctant hero finds himself drafted and forced to fight the Germans whom he feels he has nothing...
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1933
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A star football player in college, Garry King (Richard Arlen) finds post-college life very different; he betrays the trust of...
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1932
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Virtually none of the male characters in The Thrill of Youth could pass muster as a role model. As an old man preaches...
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1932
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The "Crooked Circle" gang consists of a dozen or so hooded villains, all of whom have sworn revenge on the Sphinx Club, a...
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1932
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In this drama, an jewel thief is let out of prison and heads for a New York hotel to find the jewels he hid in the fireplace...
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1932
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In this musical, based on a long-running Broadway hit from 1927, a sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's...
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1930
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In this melodrama, one of the earliest talkies, an unhappy clown retires from the circus and turns to horticulture. He is so...
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The Woman
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1930
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Technically, Mother Machree was director John Ford's first sound film -- even though the sound was limited to a Fox Movietone...
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1928
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Chorus girl Pauline Garon realizes she'll never get anywhere without publicity. To draw attention to herself, she claims to...
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1927
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Also known as The Princess From Hoboken, this is an amusing "B" picture with "A" aspirations. Hoping to improve his business,...
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Mrs. O'Brien
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1927
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Aspiring playwright Lila Lake (Alice Day), gypped by a phony theatrical agency, finds herself stranded in New York....
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Alicia Duval
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1926
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A New York society girl becomes a target of land-grabbing bandits when she inherits a Western ranch in this uneasy five-reel...
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Mrs. Lane
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1926
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Mrs. Strouds
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1926
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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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Margaret Davis
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1925
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This Fox production was only one of a seemingly endless stream of flapper pictures that came out during the 1920s. In this...
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1925
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1925
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The plot of this romantic melodrama was rather ludicrous; the filmmakers may have figured the only way to give it credibility...
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1923
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Director James W. Horne's work in comedy and action pictures is well known, so it's surprising to see his name in the credits...
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1923
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Dramatic actress Ethel Clayton never reached the same lofty heights of stardom as Clara Kimball Young or Pauline Frederick,...
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1922
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This mythical kingdom romance was quite a bit lighter than most of Ethel Clayton's heavily dramatic vehicles. While studying...
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Ruth Townley
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1922
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Margaret Harvey
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1922
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In the 1920s, chauvinism and pride overrode economics, and most men would rather have perished than relied on any money their...
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Mildred Carr
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1922
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Exit the Vamp stars the colorfully yclept Fontaine La Rue in the title role as Mrs. Willy Strong. The star of the...
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Mrs. Marion Shipley
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1921
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Ethel Clayton, who usually played long-suffering women in mediocre dramas, gets a change of pace in this comedy-drama in...
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1921
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Avis Langley
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1921
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Cosmo Hamilton, a popular author of the era, wrote the novel on which this drama was based. During a train trip, Mary McLeod...
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Mary McLeod
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1921
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Katherine Van Riper (Ethel Clayton) is a society girl with expensive taste, which she inherited from her father....
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Katherine Van Riper
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1921
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Milly West (a miscast Ethel Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim...
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1920
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Barbara (Ethel Clayton) is a naive convent girl who runs off and elopes with a man she doesn't know very well. Only after the...
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1920
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This spy melodrama was based on a novel by Samuel Merwin called Dinner at Eight, though it bears no relation whatsoever to...
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1920
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Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she became ill and a Malay nurse,...
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1920
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1919
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1919
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1919
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John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl,...
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1919
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1919
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This comedy-drama was adapted from the play by Charles Klein. Maggie Pepper (Ethel Clayton) is an outspoken young salesclerk...
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1919
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Because Phil Marsden (John Bowers) has become infatuated with musical comedy actress Bernice D'Armond (Louise Vale), his wife...
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1918
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The all-purpose title Man Hunt was trotted out for this cinemazation of Fred Jackson's short story The Silver Lining....
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1918
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Compiled by the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry and distributed to theaters across the United States,...
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1917
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Violet Kendall (Ethel Clayton) is miserable because her home is dominated by her husband's two maiden aunts (Justine Cutting...
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1917
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For John Pollard (Charles Bowser), drink and debt go hand in hand. He's ready to marry his daughter Polly (Ethel Clayton) off...
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1917
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1916
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Captain Harry Ford (Carlyle Blackwell) is tracking down moonshiners in the South when he runs afoul of nasty political...
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1916
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Stephen Ghent, a rough miner (House Peters) promises to marry Ruth Jordan (Ethel Clayton) in name only. However, he breaks...
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1916
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Screenwriter Frances Marion, who wrote the scenario for this picture early in her career, takes the classic story of a...
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1916
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Filmed in 1914, Lubin's The House Next Door didn't run in metropolitan New York until the summer of 1915. Based on a play by...
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1914
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1914
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The Lubin company of Philadelphia only made a handful of feature films. If Daughters of Men was any indication, the company...
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1914
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