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2008
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1997
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Produced for Britain's Thames television in 1979, Hollywood is a 13-part overview of the silent film era, lovingly assembled...
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1988
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"Ballyhoo" is an Irish noun that became a verb in the United States, where carnival barking evolved into sensational, showy...
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1976
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A patriotic series of historical documentaries, each program makes extensive use of archive photos, rare newsreel footage...
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1976
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In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of...
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1974
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Killer Bees a made-for-TV thriller, directed by Curtis Harrington, is the story of a strong willed woman with a curious...
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Madame von Bohlen
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1974
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1973
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This biographical documentary examines the early life and career of Charlie Chaplin. A repeated feature of American Public...
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1972
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Silent screen star Gloria Swanson received $2500 for her guest appearance in this episode -- a mere bagatelle by today's...
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1966
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In this drama, a teenager discovers that an old woman may actually be his long-lost mother. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1966
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1965
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One subject that has always been popular in the movies -- and is likely to stay that way for a long time to come -- is...
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1965
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Mrs. Daniels
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1964
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1962
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Originally aired as an NBC special on Sunday, January 10, 1960, this program went head-to-head with the hit Ed Sullivan Show...
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1960
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Robert Youngson's second feature-length compilation of silent comedy highlights (the first was The Golden Age of Comedy),...
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1959
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Mio Figlio Nero boasts one of the most eccentrically diverse casts in motion picture history. Silent movie queen Gloria...
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Agrippina
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1956
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An aging movie star and her precocious daughter hide out in the train berth of a scientist during a cross-country journey...
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Costume Designer, Ann Haven
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1952
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom....
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Norma Desmond
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1950
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Down Memory Lane is a pastiche film comprised of old comedy footage from the Mack Sennett studios. The vintage clips are tied...
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1949
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Silent screen queen Gloria Swanson returned to films after a seven-year absence in RKO Radio's Father Takes a Wife. Adolphe...
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Leslie Collier
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1941
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Frieda Hertefeld
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1934
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Star Gloria Swanson also co-produced this British film, a romantic comedy/drama that teamed her with a young Laurence...
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Producer, Judy Rogers
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1933
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Nella Vago
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1931
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Divesting herself of her own production company, silent-screen queen Gloria Swanson entered into a two-picture deal with...
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Geraldine Trent
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1931
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The widow in question is wealthy Tamarind Brooks (Gloria Swanson), who flits from one man to another with the rapidity of a...
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Producer, Tamarind Brooks
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1930
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Though filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim's notorious profligacy had made him virtually unhirable in the US by 1929, screen-star...
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Producer, Kitty Kelly
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1929
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Marion Donnell
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1929
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Producer, Sadie Thompson
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1928
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1927
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Producer, Sunya Ashling
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1927
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St. Clair Van Tassel
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1926
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Orchid Murphy
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1926
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A fresh-faced waitress and a celebrity-obsessed cook enter into a warmhearted romance in this tender love story starring...
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1925
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Although she is largely remembered for her lavish screen outfits and highly dramatic vehicles, Gloria Swanson started off her...
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Jennie Hagen
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1925
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Although this isn't one of her top pictures, Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made it. She's excellent...
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Joyce Gathway/Nadine Gathway
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1925
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Glamorous Gloria Swanson dressed down for this story of a little Parisian thief. Toinette (Swanson) is the leader of a band...
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Toinette
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1924
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This society comedy-drama was given witty direction by Allan Dwan, and was based on The Laughing Lady by respected playwright...
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Marjorie Colbert
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1924
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Although Gloria Swanson was known as a clotheshorse, occasionally her studio would allow her to rely purely on her acting...
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Carmelita
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1924
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Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made this film, and while it isn't one of her best -- a Graustarkian...
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Princess Marie
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1924
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Although an executive at Paramount came up with the racy title for this comedy-drama, the plot came from a Saturday Evening...
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Tessie McGuire
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1924
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This romantic drama gave filmgoers everything they expected from a Gloria Swanson picture -- fancy settings, gorgeous...
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Mona deBriac
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1923
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Catherine Hubscher
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1923
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Gloria Swanson is My American Wife in this farfetched but entertaining romantic drama. Married to Argentinian horse rancher...
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Natalie Chester
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1923
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Part of this romantic comedy was shot in a palatial Beverly Hills mansion, which happened to belong to the film's star,...
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Swifty Forbes
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1923
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As a play, Zaza had been around for some 30 years and had already been filmed once before when Allan Dwan updated it and made...
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Zaza
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1923
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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This picture did great at the box office, and no wonder -- Paramount's biggest star of the day, Gloria Swanson, co-starred...
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Theodora Fitzgerald
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1922
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1922
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As Gloria Swanson's star rose higher and higher, Paramount endlessly repeated the formula that brought her fame -- take a...
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Betty Bellew
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1922
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Because the drab Under the Lash failed at the box office, Paramount was more than happy to put their star, Gloria Swanson,...
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Lois Miller
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1922
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This picture was one of several that Sam Wood directed for Gloria Swanson, and its lavishness shows the influence of Cecil B....
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Suzanne Ornoff
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1922
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Cecil B. DeMille's much-maligned cinemadaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol holds up better than its...
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Vivian, His Wife
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1921
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What was Paramount thinking when it cast glamorous Gloria Swanson as a drab South African wife in this plodding drama?...
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Deborah Krillet
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1921
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Author Elinor Glyn knew how to generate publicity, and she created quite a bit when Paramount decided to film this story. In...
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Nadine Pelham
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1921
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According to trade paper Wid's, "If it happened that you got into your seat just after the introductory titles had been run...
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Marion Westover
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1921
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During the late teens and early '20s, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille reveled in much cinematic pomp and circumstance, mixing epic...
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1920
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One of the best of Cecil B. DeMille's sophisticated sex comedies of the silent era, Why Change Your Wife? hinges upon a...
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1920
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Director Cecil B. DeMille tones down his usual elegance and instead focuses on the drama of America during the Great War....
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1919
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Gretchen Barker (Gretchen Lederer) has gotten herself involved with a group of German spies in the U.S. This is particularly...
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1919
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Don't let that title fool you: Male and Female is really James M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, as interpreted by...
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Mary Losenby
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1919
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1919
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Very much her mother's daughter, Edith Emerson (Gloria Swanson intends to keep her new husband Frank (Joe King) by following...
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1918
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1918
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The ever-ascending star of Gloria Swanson received another boost with the Triangle feature Her Decision. Swanson plays...
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1918
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In 1918, movie theaters were overloaded with spy dramas, so to be of any interest at all, this one had to have a twist, and...
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1918
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Kitty Manning (Gloria Swanson) lives with her husband, Jim (Lee Hill), a telegraph operator, at a remote railway station....
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1918
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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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Gloria Swanson was still being referred to as a former Keystone star when this drama was released. Here she is struggling...
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1918
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1917
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This silent video features Teddy, the Great Dane who rescues Gloria Swanson from a villain. ~ Rovi...
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1916
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1916
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1916
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1915
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As overwrought and overacted as it appears today, this melodrama took America by storm in 1915. Its history actually goes a...
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1915
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1915
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1915
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Charlie Chaplin began his new job at Essanay Studios, who lured him away from Keystone with an offer of $1250 a week plus a...
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1915
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1915
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Narration and music accompany this two part collection of clips. The moments that left you hanging are collected in this...
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