This lesser Laurel and Hardy vehicle casts Stan and Ollie as the proprietors of the "Arthur Hurry" dance studio. Despite a...
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1943
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Jenny (Ruth Chatterton) becomes pregnant by a young man who is killed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Bearing her child...
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Willie Gleason
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1933
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1931
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1931
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Popular Broadway comedian Ted Healy (sort of a Milton Berle without the charm) was tapped for potential movie stardom by Fox...
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1930
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In this romance, two sisters fall in love with the same man. He in turn, falls for and marries the most sophisticated of the...
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Wilfred Meadows
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1930
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In this melodramatic early sound-film an innocent country gal tires of her dull pastoral life and equally boring beau so she...
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Al Bloom
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1930
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1930
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In this drama, a suave playboy gets jealous when his lover falls for a new man. Then the mistress' sister comes to town and...
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1930
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Produced in Hollywood by Herbert Wilcox, who had been unable to obtain sound equipment in London, this "haunted house"...
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1929
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In this crime melodrama, Iverson (George Fawcett) is a stockbroker who has been sent to prison for illegally manipulating the...
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1929
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In this comedy drama, a married man finds himself in philanderer's heaven when he gets involved with three local women....
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1929
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In this comedy, a meddlesome and grouchy publisher pushes his son and his wife a little too hard to make a few grandchildren...
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Hal Lambert
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1929
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In this musical comedy, an oddball wife fears that her husband's rich uncle will not like her and therefore disinherit her...
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1929
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1929
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This drama is an adaptation of a popular 1927 play and tells the story of a pair of married liberals who are content to...
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Peter
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1929
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Released in both silent and part-talkie versions, The Little Wildcat starred James Murray, late of The Crowd, as barnstorming...
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Victor Sargeant
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1928
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In the tradition of Colleen Moore's best films, Her Wild Oat is nowhere near as "naughty" as its title. Moore is cast as Mary...
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Tommy Warren
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1927
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Victor Heerman wore two creative hats during the filming of Ladies Must Dress; not only did he direct the picture, but he...
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Art
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1927
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This Raymond Griffith vehicle casts the debonair, top-hatted comedian as Algernon Schuyler Van Twitter, perennial "best man"...
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Tom Milbank
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1927
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1927
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Paul Ames
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1927
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Ladies at Play was based on Loose Ankles, a stage comedy by Sam Janney. Heroine Ann Harper is thrilled to discover that she...
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1926
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Clara Bow and Donald Keith were teamed in several low-budget romantic comedies of the 1920s, but only Bow made it to the big...
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Jack Garner
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1926
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This sentimental romance was based on the stage play by Owen Davis. Ted Wayne (Lloyd Hughes) and Jennie Clayton (Mary Astor)...
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Jack Randall
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1926
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It's hard to tell at times whether director Roland West was aiming for laughs or thrills in The Monster, but this...
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Watson's Head Clerk
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1925
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Producer B. P. Schulberg put his top star, Clara Bow, through her paces in this silent melodrama of a girl (Clara of course)...
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1925
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The Christie brothers -- Al Christie and Charles Christie -- made popular comedies for many years (one of their alumni was...
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Geoffrey Dangerfield
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1925
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After The Courtship of Miles Standish bombed, a bankrupted Charles Ray had to go back to working for other studios and trying...
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1925
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Mary Roberts Rinehart's story When a Man Marries was made into a successful play, Tumble In, by Avery Hopwood. Biograph...
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1925
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Against the wishes of director Harry A. Pollard, Reginald Denny insisted on casting Laura La Plante to play opposite him. His...
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1924
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1924
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Wealthy John Woodbury (Douglas MacLean) is mistaken for a patient by a trio of overeager doctors. After being put through a...
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Hector Walters
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1924
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Lloyd Hughes plays a Charles Ray type of character in this comedy-drama. Oliver Wendell Blaine (Hughes) comes from a long...
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1923
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Hallam Cooley stars as a slick-haired slickster who comes to a small town to promote an oil well scam. So persuasive is...
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Bruce Merlin
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1923
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This farce was based on the musical comedy by Otto A. Harbach and Louis A. Hirsch, which was adapted from the play The...
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Hopkinson Brown
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1923
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This comedy-drama starring Anita Stewart was unusual in that instead of marrying the handsome leading man, the heroine winds...
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1922
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This romantic drama carried a spiritual theme. In a small rural town next to a lumber camp, two outcasts become friends --...
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Will Preston
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1922
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This comedy-drama, with its ethnic and mother love themes, was very much of its era. When Dennis O'Neill (Cullen Landis)...
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1922
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Producer Lewis J. Selznek showed off his skills as a showman with this flashy Elaine Hammerstein vehicle. While Hammerstein...
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Francis Fraser
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1922
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This little romance, based on a story that ran in a magazine called Snappy Stories, doesn't have a lot to offer except for a...
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1922
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Although it wasn't acknowledged publicly for decades, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and actress Marion Davies...
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1922
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The titular wise kid of this five-reel comedy/drama is Rosie Cooper (Gladys Walton), the cashier in a modest restaurant,...
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1922
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Mild-mannered Wilkins (William V. Mong) has been a bookkeeper for the firm of Bates and Stryker for 15 years without...
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1921
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Olga Petrova stars as Jean Servian, an artist specializing in tiny cameos. Warned that she will lose her eyesight if she...
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1921
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According to this Lois Weber production, men don't really seem to know what they want at all -- first Frank (J. Frank...
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1921
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With a title like this one, it's practically a given that this silent picture starred Charles Ray. But this time around,...
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1920
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In a odd bit of casting, the strong-willed, 20-year-old Edith Roberts starts out as a meek, 12-year-old ragamuffin in this...
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Jimmy Sears
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1918
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Blond Juanita Hansen, a runner-up to Pearl White and Ruth Roland in the serial queen sweepstakes, starred as Rosalind Joy,...
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1918
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