Radio baritone Joe Morrison was being groomed for stardom by Paramount when he was top-billed in One Hour Late. Morrison is...
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1935
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1934
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Fed up with her doctor husband's ceaseless charity work, Mary Harris (June Clyde) leaves her Midwest "tank town" in favor of...
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Jane Martin
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1933
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Real-life gridiron star Jeff Cravath was the technical advisor for the fair-to-middling campus picture Making the Varsity. In...
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Estelle Carter
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1928
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Based on a novel by the Baroness D'Arville, the independently produced Faithless Lover requires far too many subtitles to...
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Mary Callender
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1928
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Filmed on a shoestring budget, Life's Crossroads at least affords a good acting opportunity for the underrated...
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1928
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Tenement gal Nora Denahy (Gladys Hulette) is the "Bowery Cinderella" in this standard melting-pot drama. While on a slumming...
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Nora Denahy
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1927
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This entertaining Charley Chase comedy features an old star (pretty Gladys Hulette, whose career was on its downslide) and an...
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1926
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Skyrocket was a vehicle for non-actress Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a former Ziegfeld dancer who managed to get herself into the...
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1926
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Produced and directed by Harry J. Brown, this minor silent action melodrama starred former male model Reed Howes as a...
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1926
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Also known as Jack O' Hearts, this inspirational drama was based on Jack in the Pulpit, a play by Gordon Morris....
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1926
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Motion Picture News warned that this melodrama, which was sentimental to the point of "hokum," would be better appreciated in...
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Mary Moore
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1925
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Gladys Hulette stars in this romance about a girl crook determined to -- as the title implies -- go straight. The gang Gilda...
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Gilda Hart
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1925
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Lena Rivers
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1925
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Returning to one of his favorite themes, crooks bilking the gullible nouveau riche, Tod Browning both co-wrote (with Waldemar...
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1925
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1924
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John Ford directed this epic-scale silent western, which was one of his first major successes and was hugely influential on...
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1924
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There certainly was nothing new about this tale of feuding rural families, but at least writer/director Perley Poore Sheehan...
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1924
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1924
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While this isn't one of director John Ford's best early efforts, it does feature a thrilling storm and shipwreck. Gladys...
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Nance Yeulette; Jessie Walton
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1923
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This epic production was the last film that producer and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst produced for Paramount...
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Vittoria
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1923
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This melodrama was based on Rex Beach's novel The Net. Countess Margherita (Betty Blythe) is a Sicilian girl who is about to...
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Myra Nell Drew
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1922
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"The eyes are the windows of the world," a title card from this silent melodrama states. Spoiled, rich Robert Frazer proposes...
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Nadia Meredith
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1922
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Although she had been Fox's replacement vamp after the exit of Theda Bara, Betty Blythe chose a far less exotic character...
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Natalie Nevins
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1922
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Suave Conway Tearle playing a prize fighter? At least he plays a middle weight in this colorful romantic drama, so his build...
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1922
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Lew Cody leads an excellent cast in this colorful romance. While visiting France, Prince Rudolph (Cody) falls in love with a...
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Mayflower
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1922
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Richard Barthelmess stars in this classic silent melodrama as David Kinemon, the youngest son of a family living in a small...
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Esther Hatburn
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1921
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When America enters WWI, wealthy wimp Robert Gibbs (Creighton Hale) has neither the desire nor the stomach to march off to...
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1918
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1918
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Brawny Howard Mitchell doubled as director and title character in the Thanhouser production The Traffic Cop. Mitchell plays...
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1916
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In this silent tragic crime drama, an impoverished fellow becomes so desperate that he goes along with a plot to murder a...
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1915
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Jack Leigh portrays Eugene Aram, a poverty-stricken 18th-century scholar. In dire straits, Aram plans to murder a wealthy...
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1914
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The earliest surviving screen version of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy, this Vitagraph production managed to cram...
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1909
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Every bit as cool, or maybe more so, to the audiences of 1909 as The Matrix is to the modern moviegoer, Princess Nicotine;...
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1909
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