The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing...
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Producer
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1948
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The Broadway Melody of 1936 was designed as the first of many annual follow-ups to "MGM"'s early-talkie triumph...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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After several false starts, opera star Grace Moore became a motion picture success in the sublimely assembled One Night of...
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Producer
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1934
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling...
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Producer
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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Producer
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1934
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May Robson plays Apple Annie, a slatternly Broadway apple peddler. Annie has a curious setup whereby she is able to finagle...
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Producer
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1933
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Barbara Stanwyck overcomes a veritable ocean of clichés and manages to make her "shopworn" heroine come to life in this...
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Producer
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1932
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In this romance a school marm takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to a crippled...
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Producer
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1932
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Behind the Mask is a typically virile Jack Holt vehicle, with the hero at one point shooting himself in the arm to establish...
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Producer
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1932
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Bank president Thomas Dickson (Walter Huston) has instituted a lending policy that shows great faith in ordinary people but...
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Producer
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1932
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A minister's daughter finds fame as an evangelist but struggles with her own lack of faith in Frank Capra's impassioned...
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Producer
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1931
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A rather bleak comedy-drama from Frank Capra, Platinum Blonde basically starts where Capra's later and much more buoyant It...
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Producer
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1931
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William Shakespeare's classic tragedy Romeo & Juliet is loosely adapted and modernized in director Rowland V. Lee's Guilty...
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Producer
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1931
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A fine early sound Western, this Buck Jones series entry from his Columbia period told the well-known story of a feud between...
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Producer
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1931
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Producer
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1931
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Columbia spent the 1920s and 1930s dusting off its reliable "two guys/one girl" military plotline and dressing it up in a...
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Producer
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1931
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Ten cents a dance, that's what they pay her -- "her" being downtrodden taxi dancer Barbara (Barbara Stanwyck). The only thing...
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Producer
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1931
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An early talkie from then-poverty row company Columbia Pictures, Brothers features popular silent screen actor Bert Lytell in...
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Producer
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1930
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In this mystery set at an Army post, two women are having a passionate affair with a soldier. The trouble begins when one of...
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Producer
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1930
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The second in a series of Buck Jones westerns produced by Sol Lesser for Columbia release, Shadow Ranch is the story of a...
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Producer
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1930
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Lawyer Wyn Huntley (Jack Mulhall) is a lion in the courtroom, but a lamb when it comes to women. In love with the beautiful...
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Producer
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1930
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In this romantic melodrama, a sophisticated New York model finds herself falling for a hick. The handsome farm boy is...
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Producer
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1930
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Legendary Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who was capable of reducing audiences to paroxysms of helpless laughter by telling them...
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Producer
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1930
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In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and begin fighting over her...
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Producer
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1930
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Reformed gold-digger Barbara Stanwyck falls in love with a womanizing and wealthy aspiring artist and tries to convince him...
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Producer
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1930
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In this crime melodrama, a bootlegger orders the death of his rival. Meanwhile the bootlegger's wife dallies with his best...
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Producer
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1930
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Guilty? could be regarded as a precursor to Citizen Kane -- except that the first film isn't one-20th as good as the second....
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Producer
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1930
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Producer
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1930
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W.B. Maxwell's novel served as a film vehicle for Alla Nazimova in 1924; in 1930 it made an even better (although...
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Producer
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1930
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Actor Ralph Graves was responsible for the original story upon which Vengeance was based -- although, perhaps wisely, he...
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Producer
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1930
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Capricious Constance Bannister (Sally Eilers) has had 12 fiances, but has yet to take her marital vows. Fiance number 13,...
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Producer
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1929
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Most of the films of silent screen starlet Olive Borden have apparently been lost to the ages, and Columbia's The Eternal...
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Producer
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1929
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Filmed back-to-back with the similar The Broadway Hoofer, Broadway Scandals marked the first musical production from...
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Producer
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1929
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This comedy-mystery is famed director Frank Capra's first all-talking film. It tells the story of a bungling police inspector...
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Producer
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1929
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Producer
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1929
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In this drama, set in a bordertown gambling saloon, the owner falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an...
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Producer
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1929
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Gangster boss Egan (Sam Hardy) manages to beat a murder rap by framing his mistress Marion (Margaret Livingston) for the...
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Producer
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1929
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Blonde Broadway dancer Marie Saxon came to the screen in 1929 courtesy of Columbia Pictures, who starred her opposite popular...
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Producer
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1929
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Although forgotten today, Broadway chanteuse Belle Baker was important enough for Columbia Pictures to herald her much...
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Producer
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1929
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Producer
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1928
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This high-seas melodrama tells the tale of a self-righteous sea captain who steals his son and leaves his wife because he...
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Producer
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1928
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Producer
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1928
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Recorded sound effects punctuate this silent drama, the first big-budget release from the then-Poverty Row studio Columbia....
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Producer
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1928
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Producer
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1928
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Producer
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1928
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This silent gangster tale centers on a scarred racketeer, ironically called Handsome Williams (Mitchell Lewis), who has been...
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Producer
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1928
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The Columbia programmer Sinner's Parade stars studio utility player Victor Varconi as shady dance-hall proprietor Al Morton....
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Producer
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1928
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Producer
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1928
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Runaway Girls was the first directorial credit for Mark Sandrich, who would still have to serve a long apprenticeship in...
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Producer
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1928
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Banker John Caswell (Francis X. Bushman), a wealthy widower, decides to leave his scheming mistress Irene (Margaret...
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Producer
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1928
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In this lively comedy (a predecessor of the screwball comedies of the '30s and '40s) a young woman lies to the policeman who...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1927
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Although this was only the second "Lone Wolf" film produced by Columbia, Bert Lytell had already played Louis Joseph Vance's...
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Producer
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1927
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By Whose Hand? is a swift little thriller expertly assembled by up-and-coming Columbia Pictures. Ricardo Cortez stars as a...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1927
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Edward H. Griffith, whose list of directorial credits extended back to the Edison Studios days, was at the controls of...
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Producer
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1927
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Small town girls get a taste of the world when they go fortune seeking in the big city. The big sister goes first and gets a...
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Producer
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1927
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Sally in Our Alley revives the old bromide about the orphan waif who is unofficially adopted by three men of different faiths...
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Producer
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1927
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For unknown reasons, Harry Cohn, prickly president of Columbia pictures, is listed as the director of several of his studio's...
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Director, Producer
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1927
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Footloose flapper Peggy Marston (Dorothy Revier) runs away from her oppressive household and right into the arms of Big...
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Producer, Supervisor/Manager
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1927
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Helene Chadwick stars as Fay Leslie, a slightly blowzy but basically good-hearted chorus girl. When Fay falls in love with...
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Producer
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1927
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This typically hard-nosed Jack Holt vehicle casts the star as opium smuggler Tom Fellows. While in Shanghai on "business,"...
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Producer
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1927
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Also known as Swell-Head, this enjoyable Columbia programmer starred former Mack Sennett leading man Ralph Graves, who also...
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Producer
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1927
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The pretty former showgirl Dorothy Sebastian improbably plays a South Pacific native girl in this silent clinker. She...
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Producer
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1927
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In this silent crime drama, a clown comes home and finds his wife in bed with his colleague. He naturally flies into a...
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Producer
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1927
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Producer, Supervisor/Manager
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1927
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The Columbia "special" Sweet Rosie O'Grady was purportedly inspired by the ballad of the same name. Orphaned at birth, Rosie...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1926
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Dorothy Phillips, an actress once billed as the "Duse of the Screen," stars in the Columbia programmer Remember. Phillips is...
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Producer
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1926
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Supervisor/Manager
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1926
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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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Supervisor/Manager
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1926
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Producer
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1925
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Lightning the Dog, Columbia Pictures' answer to Rin Tin Tin, heads the cast of Lure of the Wild. Displaying a range of...
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Producer
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1925
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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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Producer
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1923
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While no one could ever call the cast to this melodrama "all star," it certainly features some of the best second-stringers...
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Producer
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1922
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Those who see the title to this picture and think it must be based on a hoary old melodrama are absolutely correct. The play,...
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Producer
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1922
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