Billy (Jon Voight) is on the road with his son T.J. (Ricky Schroder), fighting low-end boxing matches for drinking money...
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Book Author, Short Story Author
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1979
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An unofficial remake of The Champ, The Clown concerns Dodo Delwyn (Red Skelton), a down-and-out performer with abundant and...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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A servant with no experience ends up teaching the master of the house a thing or two in this comedy. Molly Barry...
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Book Author
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1945
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Angry natives or a beautiful widow -- which poses the greater threat? Keith Brandon (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is an...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Screenwriter
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1937
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1937
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Greta Garbo enjoyed one of her greatest triumphs in this glossy adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' oft-filmed romantic tragedy....
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1936
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Riff-Raff begins riff-raffing when boastful fisherman Dutch (Spencer Tracy) marries down-to-earth cannery worker Hattie...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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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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Screenwriter
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1933
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Reportedly at the request of Marion Davies herself, Bing Crosby was borrowed from Paramount for the MGM Davies vehicle...
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Screen Story
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1933
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Screenwriter
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1933
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One woman helps make an unknown boxer a star, but could a handful lead him back to obscurity again? Steve Morgan (Max Baer)...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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1933
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1932
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1932
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Emma is a turn-of-the-century domestic drama completely dominated by star Marie Dressler. She plays the maid of an upper...
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Screen Story
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1932
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Wallace Beery won an Academy Award for his tour de force performance as a washed-up boxer. The bibulous Beery travels from...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Bootleggers Louis Scorpio (Wallace Beery) and Johnny Franks (Ralph Bellamy), with the advice of their alcoholic lawyer...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Accompanied by one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Hollywood history, Greta Garbo made her "talking picture"...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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The DeSylva-Brown-Henderson Broadway musical Good News was first brought to the screen by MGM in 1930. The scene is Tait...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery),...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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In this romance, a disillusioned wife, learning that her husband has been unfaithful, divorces him and moves to Paris where...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Metropolitan opera star Lawrence Tibbett headed the cast of The Rogue Song, an opulent Technicolor adaptation of the...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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This early talkie melodrama features a waterfront hotel-owner (Marie Dressler) and her relationship with an area fisherman...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Yet another early talkie about love, jealousy and divorce among the upper classes, Their Own Desire remains a dramatically...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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The Wind, Victor Sjostrom's final American film, is a western only in its locale: its symbolism-laden story of physical and...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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Fred Thomson plays a dual role (sort of) in The Sunset Legion. Thomson is cast as a Texas ranger who poses as a cowardly...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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Masks of the Devil was director Victor Seastrom's final silent film for MGM -- and his next-to-last American film before his...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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Silent western star Fred Thomson's second film for Paramount, The Pioneer Scout benefited from glorious locations in...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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MGM star William Haines was at the peak of his popularity when he starred in Excess Baggage. Haines plays Eddie Kane, a...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1928
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Based on a novel by Kathleen Morris, The Callahans and the Murphys was the first of several MGM films costarring veteran...
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Screenwriter
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1927
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Silent cowboy star Fred Thomson raised quite a bit of controversy by portraying the famous outlaw in a sympathetic vein --...
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Screenwriter
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1927
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Fred Thomson's first film of 1927 told the exciting story of Don Miguel, part Spaniard, part Irish, who rescues a party of...
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Screenwriter
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1927
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Screenwriter
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1927
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This lavish adaptation of Victor Herbert's operetta The Red Mill proved to be one of Marion Davies' most delightful and...
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Screenwriter
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1927
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Screenwriter
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1927
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A very popular silent western, this film features two engineers vying for the affections of the adoptive daughter of a...
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Screenwriter
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1926
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1926
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1926
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Paris at Midnight was freely adapted from Pere Goriot, a novel by Honore de Balzac. Lionel Barrymore stars as the "Robin Hood...
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Screenwriter
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1926
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Screenwriter
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1926
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The Son of the Sheik, Rudolph Valentino's last film, may well be his best. A sequel to (and vast improvement upon)...
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Screenwriter
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1926
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Although this isn't a top-notch Marion Davies film, she's still very charming in it. Mamie Smith (Davies in pigtails and...
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Screenwriter
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1925
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This sentimental drama, based on the stage play by H.B. Trevelyan (actually a pseudonym for Guy Bolton), was the American...
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Screenwriter
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1925
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One of the silent era's most popular tearjerkers, this soapy melodrama was adapted by legendary screenwriter Frances Marion...
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Screenwriter
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1925
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The influential New York critic Mordaunt Hall declared this circus melodrama a "light after-dinner entertainment which won't...
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Screenwriter
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1925
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1925
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Screenwriter
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1925
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On a train traveling from the West, Grenfall Lorry, an American (Eugene O'Brien), meets the mysterious and beautiful Yetive...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1925
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Screenwriter
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1924
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This epic covers all of Lincoln's life. His birth in a blizzard; his boyhood (depicted by Danny Hey as young Lincoln); his...
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Screenwriter
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1924
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn gave his usual top-drawer treatment to Cytherea, making this pulpish romance seem more important than...
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Screenwriter
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1924
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After a series of less-than-stellar pictures, Norma Talmadge tried something a little different with this sentimental...
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Screenwriter
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1924
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Although Colleen Moore made this drama before Flaming Youth, it came out later, which wound up being a big help at the box...
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Screenwriter
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1924
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Most of the elements that made the first Potash and Perlmutter film so successful are brought back here: Frances Marion is...
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Screenwriter
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1924
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Screenwriter
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1923
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Although this desert drama was not one of Norma Talmadge's best films, it is notable because the director was screen writer...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1923
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This is the second time Bayard Veiller's play made it to the silent screen (it would be made one more time in 1939 as a...
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Screenwriter
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1923
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Screenwriter
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1923
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This "real life" drama starred some of the best second-string talent at Metro, and first-class screenwriter Frances Marion...
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Screenwriter
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1923
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This picture, based on the novel and play by Robert Hichens, was typical melodramatic fare for star Norma Talmadge. Lord...
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Screenwriter
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1923
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Colleen Moore who, later in the year, would become indelibly identified with Flaming Youth, got raves for her performance in...
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Screenwriter, Supervisor/Manager
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1923
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Screenwriter
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1922
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Light comedienne Constance Talmadge did some of her best work with the husband/wife, director/writer team of John Emerson and...
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Screenwriter
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1922
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Although it sounds ludicrous to slap a black wig on vivacious blonde Constance Talmadge and try to pass her off as a Chinese...
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Screenwriter
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1922
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Once again, actor Richard Barthelmess and director Henry King team up in an attempt to recreate the magic of Tol'able David....
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Screenwriter
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1922
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This tragic tale of the Orient was only the second feature film in which a color film process invented by Technicolor was...
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Screen Story
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1922
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A visually stunning if somewhat overblown melodrama, The Love Light was directed by Mary Pickford's close friend and...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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Mary Pickford was at the height of her fame as "America's Sweetheart" when she took on the challenge of playing two roles --...
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1921
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This moderately low-budget comedy-drama was nevertheless well-made. It had a good foundation -- the scenarist was Frances...
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Screenwriter
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1921
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In addition to her illustrious career as a screenwriter, Frances Marion also directed a few pictures. This one, based on a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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It's hard to believe that this picture and the 1946 Humoresque were based on the same Fannie Hurst novel -- they're...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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In 1920s jargon, a "flapper" was a footloose young lady who, in keeping with a current fad, wore open-laced boots that...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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For her first United Artists release, silent superstar Mary Pickford decided to play it safe, even though it galled her to do...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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When publisher and producer William Randolph Hearst was putting together a picture for his mistress, the pretty and highly...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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Marion Davies' fifth feature film had the mark of William Randolph Hearst all over it. It was produced by his production...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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1919
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Set in San Francisco's Chinatown, City of Dim Faces starred Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa as Jang Lung, the son of a...
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Screenwriter
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1919
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This comic tale of buried treasure should have been a winner, but it turned out to be one on Mary Pickford's misses. The...
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Screenwriter
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1919
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Perhaps one of Mary Pickford's lesser works, this film was nevertheless a funny, extremely well-produced comedy about a...
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Screenwriter
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1918
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1918
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Previously filmed in 1915, the Bret Harte story M'liss served as one of Mary Pickford's most memorable vehicles. The...
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Screenwriter
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1918
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1918
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Coming as it did on the heels of what many consider to be Mary Pickford's greatest triumph, Stella Maris (1918), this film...
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Screenwriter
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1918
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The Amazons is neither a story of ancient Greece nor a South American travelogue. Instead, it is based on a play by Arthur...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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Alice Brady was the biggest star on the World Studio lot, and small wonder: her father, theatrical impresario William H....
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Screenwriter
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1917
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A bittersweet tale of a little rich girl so sheltered by the parents she hardly ever sees that she has no idea of what is...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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Because of her father's death at the hands of Russian soldiers, Ilda Barosky (Alice Brady) carries a grudge against the...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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The Thanhouser company's rival to Mary Pickford, Gladys Hulette, played a spunky Irish lass in this romantic comedy-drama...
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Director
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1917
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If the name "Tillie" appears in the title and the film is made in the latter half of the 1910s, it's a sure bet that...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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The title may have been designed to cash in on the success of Griffith's Birth of a Nation (wherein the Ku Klux Klan were the...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was the first film version of the Kate Douglas Wiggin novel and play. Mary Pickford, 23 years old...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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Screenwriter
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1917
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This first version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's frequently filmed children's classic A Little Princess starred 23-year-old...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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Alice Brady plays the lead in this adaptation of Frou Frou. Frou Frou (Brady) agrees to marry the man chosen by her father,...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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Screenwriter
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1917
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Alice Brady plays a farm girl who marries the son of her next-door neighbor. Her dreams of a gay social whirl are shattered...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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Screenwriter
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1916
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Not to be confused with the 1918 Harry T. Morey vehicle of the same name, the 1916 western All Man was adapted by...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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This silent melodrama was typical Mary Pickford fare, if perhaps not one of her best. She had made a version of the film in...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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Taking the rap for her sister, who spent the night with a lecherous travelling salesman, Jane Lawson (Alice Brady) is booted...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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This film, based on the popular novel by Larry Evans, pits brute force against high finance. Railroad engineer Steve O'Mara...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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The first half of this picture leans heavily on the romance and the historical drama doesn't kick in until later. Nathan Hale...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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Long before she became a top character actress, Alice Brady was the in-house ingenue for the World Film Manufacturing...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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Screenwriter
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1916
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This comedy-drama, based on a popular play of the era by George Broadhurst, is the classic story of a poor girl who marries a...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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Mary Pickford essays the title character in Esmeralda. She plays a country lass who leaves her home after valuable gold ore...
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Screenwriter
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1915
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Practically the whole Pickford clan showed up in Fanchon the Cricket. Mary Pickford plays the granddaughter of a woman...
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Screenwriter
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1915
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1915
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1915
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The relationship between a plucky daughter and her brutish father is dissected in this classic Mary Pickford drama set in a...
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Screenwriter
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1915
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Screenwriter
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1915
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Having played a modern actress in Behind the Scenes (1914), Mary Pickford took on the legendary 17th Century Nell Gwynn, the...
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Screenwriter
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1915
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This typical silent rags-to-riches comedy-drama featured Mary Pickford and her real-life brother Jack as sibling orphans...
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1915
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