Very freely based upon the book by Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater is set in San Francisco during the Tong...
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1962
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Joan Fry
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1929
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"Doomsday" is the name of a valuable patch of British farm property owned by self-made millionaire Percival Fream...
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Mary Viner
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1928
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Ernst Lubitsch, well-known for his sophisticated romantic comedies, proved that he was equally adept at historical drama in...
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Countess Anna Ostermann
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1928
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Mme. Florence Laverne
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1928
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Kathenne Silvenon
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1927
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A French play by Georges Berr and Henri Verneuil was the source for Paramount's The World at Her Feet. The ever-glamorous...
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1927
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Rita Farrell
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1927
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Snobbish socialite Gail Grant (Florence Vidor) is accustomed to getting everything she wants. Thus, when she storms into a...
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Gail Grant
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1927
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Though his career went into decline in the talkie era, director Mal St. Clair was responsible for some of the funniest,...
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Grand Duchess Zenia
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1926
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According to this frothy comedy, the "popular sin" is infidelity, especially in Paris. Philandering husband George Montfort...
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Yvonne Montfort
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1926
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Based on a novel by Francis Brett Young, Sea Horses stars Florence Vidor as Helen Salvia, who is deserted early on by her...
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Helen Solvia
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1926
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Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac. Ricardo Cortez stars as Sazarac, a...
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Louise Lestron
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1926
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Like most Westerns of the era, this Jack Holt vehicle from Paramount includes automobiles and even airplanes. But Holt went...
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Gail Ormsby
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1926
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Vera Janova
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1926
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Betty Bronson, who found overnight success when she played the title character in Peter Pan, has the ingenue lead in this...
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1925
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Produced but not directed by Cecil B. DeMille, The Coming of Amos nevertheless has many earmarks of a typical DeMille film,...
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1925
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Former Mack Sennett comedian Ford Sterling practically steals this show in this Malcolm St. Clair-directed picture, which...
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Grace Hyatt
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1925
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There is nothing original about this drama -- it's the old tale of the small-town girl who heads for the bright lights of the...
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Irene Martin
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1925
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Edward Everett Horton is well cast in this simple little romance, which was based on the play The Nest Egg by Anne Caldwell...
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Hetty Gandy
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1925
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This adaptation of Kathleen Norris' best-selling novel came out just weeks before its producer, Thomas Ince, mysteriously...
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Christine Madison
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1924
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Grace Livingston
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1924
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Viennese doctor Monte Blue is madly in love with his wife Florence Vidor--so much so that many suspect that they aren't...
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Charlotte Braun
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1924
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Although John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the poem Barbara Frietchie, it was actually the Clyde Fitch play that served as...
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Barbara Frietchie
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1924
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Elderly Isadore Solomon (Dore Davidson) arrives in the small New England town of Valley Falls, but is run out of the hotel...
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Mary Clark
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1924
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Almost an instant classic, Booth Tarkington's 1921 small-town morality tale reached the screen two years later courtesy of...
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Alice Adams
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1923
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This second of four film versions of Owen Wister's The Virgininian stars Kenneth Harlan as the nameless principal character....
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Molly Woods
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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The emancipation of women was still growing in fits and starts in 1922 (they had won the right to vote only a couple years...
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Rose Stanton
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1922
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This is not one of the better collaborations between director King Vidor and his then-wife, Florence Vidor. She stars as...
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Judith Stafford
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1922
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As a young director, King Vidor certainly wasn't adverse to taking chances -- this picture, based on Katherine Hill's novel,...
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Marjorie Latham
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1922
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Looking back on her film credits, Florence Vidor had been playing leads in pictures for the likes of Cecil B. DeMille and her...
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Ane Clegg
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1922
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Nancy Abbott
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1921
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This drama, produced by Thomas Ince, featured an excellent cast and a powerful story. Although she only had a second lead,...
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Judith Beresford
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1921
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Louis Joseph Vance, creator of the fictional detective hero The Lone Wolf, wrote the story upon which Beau Revel was based....
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Nellie Steel
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1921
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An early directorial effort by King Vidor, The Jack Knife Man is based on a sentimental story by Ellis Parker Butler. Vidor...
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1920
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Even though this drama was made early in King Vidor's directing career, his sense of humanity -- one of the defining...
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1919
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Director King Vidor would always take the slightest excuse to champion the common man (or woman), and that he does with this...
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1919
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The first of Cecil B. DeMille's series of sophisticated romantic comedy-dramas, Old Wives for New was adapted from a novel by...
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1918
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Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa was one of the most popular leading men in American silent films-this despite the fact that...
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1918
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During World War I, every director made at least one film about the battles going on in Europe, even Cecil B. DeMille. These...
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1918
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Even popular Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa was swept up into the distinctly occidental intrigues of WWI in...
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1917
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One of the big hits in 1917, this epic retelling of Dicken's classic tale features exceptional production values and special...
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1917
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William Farnum's features never failed to pack 'em in, no matter what the plot. In American Methods, Farnum plays a...
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1917
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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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