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1959
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Cliff Brandon (Victor Mature) is a US pilot serving in China in 1943, flying supplies to Allied soldiers in Burma. He's the...
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1958
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Kim Novak is clearly out of her depth as legendary Broadway actress Jeanne Eagels, but one can't fault her for trying very...
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1957
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All of his life, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) has been taunted and mistreated by most of the people around him, enduring...
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1948
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A man's addiction to gambling almost destroys his life in this racetrack adventure. Joe Grange is nearly broke when he buys...
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Director, Producer
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1947
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As its fortunes grew in the mid-1940s, Republic Pictures occasionally strayed from its usual manifest of westerns and...
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Director, Producer
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1946
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Director Frank Borzage and star Ginger Rogers both came acropper in the lavish but dull historical biopic Magnificent Doll....
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1946
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RKO Radio's first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul...
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1945
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1944
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In this frothy musical comedy, Ann Carter (Deanna Durbin) is an aspiring singer from the Midwest who decides to move to New...
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1943
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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This MGM musical lifts the premise of Pride and Prejudice and plunks it down into the early 1900s. S.Z. Sakall is a...
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1942
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The Vanishing Virginian was adapted from the autobiographical bestseller by Rebecca Yancey Williams. Newcomer...
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1941
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Adapted from the warhorse stage tearjerker by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin, this 1941 film version of Smilin' Through is even...
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1941
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The Nazi Party's rise to power has disastrous consequences for a German family in this drama. Victor Roth (Frank Morgan) is a...
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1940
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"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When...
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1940
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MGM had a tendency to overglamorize the sort of rough-hewn film fare that Warner Bros. offered to its public without...
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1940
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Idealism vs. Practicality is the Disputed Passage in this lavishly mounted soap opera. Based on a novel by Lloyd C. Douglas...
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1939
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1938
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Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of...
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1938
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When Errol Flynn insisted that Warner Bros. cook up a non-swashbuckler for his next vehicle, the result was Green Light....
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1937
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Mannequin stars Joan Crawford as Jessie Cassidy, a girl of the tenements (though this being an MGM film, her slum dwellings...
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1937
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The Big City is an improbable urban melodrama which takes place during a "taxi war" between honest independent cabdrivers and...
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1937
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History is Made at Night has been described as a romantic tragedy, which it indeed is, up to a point. The film begins...
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1937
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A remake of 1928's Glorious Betsy (itself based on a stage play by Rida Johnson Young), Hearts Divided is based, believe it...
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1936
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In this frothy romantic adventure, Marlene Dietrich plays Madeleine de Beaupre, a devious jewel thief. After sneaking a...
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1936
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In this romance, a social worker employed by Traveler's Aid finally is able to show her love to a construction foreman...
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1935
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This musical drama stars Dick Powell as the son of an admiral (Lewis Stone), who'd rather sing than go to sea. Through the...
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1935
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In this drama, an amateur pilot is driven to living life in the fast lane after he pilots that plane that crashed and killed...
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1935
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A tough youth gang leader learns the true meaning of courage in this moving and thoughtful drama. He is the leader of a...
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1934
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Set in Germany shortly before the collapse of the Weimar Republic, this romantic drama chronicles the travails of an...
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1934
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Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler reunite once again for this musical salute to the West Point Military Academy, including many...
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1934
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This Depression-era romantic drama, which offers a surprisingly potent and unsentimental view of the economic hardships of...
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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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1932
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1932
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1932
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Based on a novel by Vina Delmar, Bad Girl stars Sally Eilers as heroine Dot Haley. The title notwithstanding, Dot isn't bad...
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1931
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In this comedy, a successful owner of a meat-packing plant tries to pass on his obsession for punctuality and rules to his...
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1931
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The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one...
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1931
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1930
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Forty-five-year-old Irish tenor John McCormack made his screen debut in Song o' My Heart. Fans of McCormack would have been...
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1929
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Will Rogers' first all-talking feature casts the beloved humorist as Pike Peters, owner of an auto repair shop in Claremore,...
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1929
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In this drama, a lonely woman leads an isolated life on a ramshackle with her widowed mother who firmly believes her...
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1929
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1928
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1928
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In 1927, Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress with her performance in this film, among the most...
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1927
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That question mark in the film's title should provide a good clue as to the tenor of the storyline. Married to British...
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1926
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Jean Paul Fippany (J. Farrell MacDonald) is so wrapped up in his horse, a filly named Marseillaise, that he neglects his...
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1926
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The masterful direction of Frank Borzage adds three-dimensionality to the otherwise cardboard complications in Easy to Wed....
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1926
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1926
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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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1925
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1925
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Julian (Percy Marmont) is an artist with a restless soul. When he runs into Edith, his childhood sweetheart (Alice Joyce), he...
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Director, Producer
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1925
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In spite of a fine cast and director, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer somehow managed to turn the stage play by W. Somerset Maugham into...
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1925
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Polly Pearl (Norma Talmadge) is a bar manager who doubles as a cabaret performer in this romantic melodrama taken from the...
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1925
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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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1924
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This simple little character study was well directed by Frank Borzage. Old Archer, the caretaker of Gramercy Park (Bert...
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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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1923
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Janet Loring (Myrtle Steadman) marries millionaire Malcolm Trask (Frank Truesdell). The only catch is that she has to desert...
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1923
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1922
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This virile drama, produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Pictures, was based on the novel by then-popular author...
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1922
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Although the silent screen of the early '20s was inundated with dramas of the Northwest, many of them based on the novels of...
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1922
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In this charming silent western parody, former stage comedian Billy Jim (Fred Stone, the scarecrow in the original Broadway...
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1922
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aka Wallingford This comedy -- and the play of the same name by George M. Cohan -- were both based on the then-popular book...
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1921
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Bucolic vaudeville entertainer Fred Stone both produced and starred in this comedy Western directed by Frank Borzage. Stone,...
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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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1920
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Yvonne (Olive Thomas) meets an American, David Lane (Norman Kerry), in the Latin Quarter of Paris. They fall in love and...
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1919
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1919
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Olive Thomas is Prudence, a Quaker girl whose parents send her from their home in Pennsylvania to a boarding school in New...
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1919
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William Desmond, he of the dazzling smile and sleek physique, was starred in the Triangle feature Society for Sale. Desmond...
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1918
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Half-heartedly forsaking his carefree life as a hobo, Benny Boggs (William Desmond) heads directly to the Army recruiting...
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1918
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According to The Moving Picture World, "Never jilt a woman who can shoot" was one of the recommended advertising phrases for...
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1918
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The sensitive direction of Frank Borzage helped to pull The Ghost Flower over its dramatic "rough spots." Alma Rubens stars...
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1918
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The small town where heroine Tesse Fayne (Pauline Starke) resides is invaded by a third-rate theatrical stock company. The...
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1918
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Of Frank Borzage's nine directorial efforts for the year 1918, Who Is to Blame? was adjudged the best of the batch by the...
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1918
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Until They Get Me was the last of three 1917 productions directed by the versatile Frank Borzage. Almost, but not quite, as...
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1918
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Long before he became the silver screen's foremost sentimentalist, director Frank Borzage churned out such lively melodramas...
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1918
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An American sailor (Frank Borzage, who also directed) is shipwrecked on the coast of nineteenth-century Japan. Although most...
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1918
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Mormonism was considered something of a hot potato in 1917, with many sideline observers (including such self-proclaimed...
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1917
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Former Yale athlete Brent Brewster (William Desmond) winds up a failure after graduation until he decides to become a...
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1917
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When her father goes broke, Irish colleen Betty (Bessie Love) is forced to sell her ancestral home. But rather than part with...
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1917
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1916
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1916
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1916
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The athletic William Russell was well-cast as a boxer in this solid but stereotypical drama. Jack Hastings (Russell) is...
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1916
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Eastern capitalists hire a stranger (Frank Borzage) to head out to Arizona to investigate property near the Bar C Ranch,...
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1916
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Future top director Frank Borzage and equestrienne Anna (later Ann) Little starred in this low-budget silent oater, one in a...
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1916
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1916
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1916
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1916
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1916
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1916
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1916
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Playwright Willard Mack was never averse to "borrowing" someone else's good idea. In the case of Aloha Oe, Mack's inspiration...
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1915
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1915
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1915
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1915
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Produced and co-written by Thomas H. Ince, The Wrath of the Gods (aka The Destruction of Sakura-Jima) was a major undertaking...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1912
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