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1944
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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1940
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Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry...
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1935
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This droll, sophisticated comedy stars Constance Bennett as Venice Muir, a shy young lady with no "past" of any kind -- and...
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1932
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In this romance, an impoverished Viennese aristocrat becomes a gigolo. While on the job, he encounters a Yankee widow who is...
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1932
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In this drama, a blue collar steelworker marries a wealthy socialite. It all begins after he saves two workers during a...
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1931
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Silent screen sweetheart Corinne Griffith, who originally wanted to retire when talkies came in, proved the wisdom of her...
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Lewis Conroy
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1930
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For a "Poverty Row" production, Ladies in Love is pretty and is in fact no worse than most of the early talkies being ground...
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Ward Hampton
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1930
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In this romance, Mamie, a humble factory worker, falls in love with a cocky, young boxer, Bill "Cyclone" Hickey. To help his...
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1930
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Amidst the furor of the Civil War a courageous Union captain, nursing a broken heart, volunteers for spy duty. Masquerading...
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1930
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Aerial photography highlights this early sound actioner, set during World War I. Lt. Robert Banks (Charles "Buddy" Rogers),...
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1930
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In this 1929 comedy, two white minstrel comedians, Moran and Mack, in black-face, re-create their most beloved routines in...
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1929
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1929
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Director William Wellman's follow-up to Wings was based in part on his own WWI experiences with the Lafayette Flying Corps....
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1928
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1928
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1928
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After losing a fistfight to his romantic rival Freeman Wood, wastrelly Warner Baxter skulks off to the North Woods. Hoping to...
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Leigh Morlock
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1927
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Based on the once-popular "musical extravaganza" of the same name, McFadden's Flats is a serviceable vehicle for Keystone...
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1927
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Caught in a heavy rainstorm without a car, Edward Everett Horton purchases a dilapidated taxicab so that he can get his...
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1927
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The Lone Wolf, Louis Joseph Vance's celebrated thief-turned-sleuth, began his long association with Columbia Pictures in...
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Mallison
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1926
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Originally, Louise Brooks was only supposed to have a supporting role in this comedy-drama starring Adolphe Menjou. Partway...
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1926
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1926
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Pauline Frederick plays the title role in this cinemadaptation of Kathleen Norris' novel Josselyn's Wife. Jilted by her...
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Mr Arthur
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1926
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1925
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The Fox company signed young Carole Lombard (billing her "Carol") to a contract after she tested for and won the female lead...
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Oscar Estabrook
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1925
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Winsome Shirley Mason stars in this routine Fox melodrama. The naïve Grace Whitney (Mason) attends a wild party being held by...
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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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Part Time Wife was inspired by a racy novelette originally seen in the pages of Spicy Stories magazine. The happy marriage...
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DeWitt Courtney
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1925
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On a voyage from India to London, it is rumored that an infamous cracksman is onboard -- of course, it is Raffles (House...
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Bunny Manners
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1925
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Dalla (Betty Compson) is an untamed orphan of the South African veldt. She falls in love with Colonel Valentia, a noted...
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Clon Biron
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1924
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1924
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1924
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In this taut silent mystery, a young woman mends her recently broken heart by reluctantly accepting a young lawyer's...
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1924
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This plodding melodrama fails to measure up to the original 1917 version directed by Charles Giblyn. Mildred Gower...
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Stanley Baird
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1924
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Gossip really has very little to do with the storyline to this capital versus labor drama. It was not one of Gladys Walton's...
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Robert Williamson
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1923
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The "shocking" (by 1923 standards) title to this picture was just a smokescreen -- in reality, it was merely a domestic soap...
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1923
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Talented Anna Q. Nilsson overcomes hackneyed material in this society drama. Actress Fay Leslie (Nilsson) marries Don Hampton...
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1923
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1923
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The bizarre Mae Murray, she of the bee-stung lips and haughty demeanor, plays sisters in this potboiler set during the...
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Eric Van Corland
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1923
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Hoot Gibson takes off his cowboy gear and dons a naval uniform in this comedy-drama. Sam Pertune (Gibson) is in love with Mae...
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1923
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Manly Hobart Bosworth tackles one of his characteristic roles -- that of a brutal sea captain -- in this drama written by C....
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Ralph Alden
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1922
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1922
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Based on The White Peacock Feathers by Du Vernet Rabell, this minor melodrama from the assembly line at Universal starred...
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1921
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Tom Moore stars in this light comedy. He is Tom O'Gara, who arrives in New York from Ireland and takes a job as a fireman...
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1921
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Christine Trevor (Gladys Walton) is a spoiled young society girl who completely neglects her father and her brothers and...
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Cortland Van Ness
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1921
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Evelyn Greeley essays the title role in Diane of Star Hollow. The plot is set in motion by the Black Hand, a sinister...
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1921
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Dorothy Gish stars as a superstitious young miss in this silly farce comedy. Frances Wadsworth (Gish) keeps her eyes on the...
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1919
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Newspaper cartoonist Bud Fisher penned the exotically titled short story The Green Gullabaloo, which was committed to film in...
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1918
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