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1938
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When Buster Keaton goes to work as an assistant to a carnival magician, the results turn out to be less than magical....
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1936
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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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1936
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In this polished soap opera from MGM, Robert Taylor plays Chris Claybourne, a dedicated scientist researching a possible...
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best of all of Harold Lloyd's talkies, The...
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1936
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In this comedy with musical numbers set in the Old South, Bing Crosby plays a singer (talk about a casting stretch!) from...
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1935
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1934
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In this 3-reel comedy Western, Bud (Wally Wales) and his cowpoke sidekick Ben (Ben Corbett) decide to become outlaws. The...
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1934
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We Live Again was based on Tolstoy's Resurrection; the title was changed upon producer Sam Goldwyn's theory that it meant the...
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1934
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Just because Police Call was cheaply made doesn't mean it isn't fun to watch. Nick Stuart stars as Danny, a champion boxer...
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1933
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In this melodrama, a female physician encounters professional and personal turmoil when she finds herself having an affair...
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1933
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A great white hunter embarks upon an African safari, but instead of bagging an animal, he ends up entangled with an exotic...
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The Millionaire
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1932
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A varied group of more or less greedy relatives is once again gathered at the reading of a will in this atmospheric thriller...
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1932
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Charles Chaplin was deep into production of his silent City Lights when Hollywood was overwhelmed by the talkie revolution....
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The Millionaire
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1931
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Two holdovers from the silent-film era top the cast of Columbia's Meet the Wife. Laura La Plante and Lew Cody are cast...
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Harvey Lennox
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1931
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Seldom was there a less appropriately named film company than Artclass Pictures, a firm which specialized in the lowest of...
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Sturgeon
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1931
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Stage favorite Peggy Wood (later the star of the popular TV series Mama) made her screen debut in the MGM part-talkie Wonder...
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Bruno Heim
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1929
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1928
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As a follow-up to the successful marital farce Up in Mabel's Room, PDC Productions came out with a film version of the...
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1927
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Bert Lytell stars as Richard Band, a handsome doctor specializing in women's ailments. One of Band's more impressionable...
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Hotel Detective
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1927
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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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1927
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Girl in the Pullman is a standard door-slamming farce in the fine tradition of Up in Mabel's Room and...
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1927
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1927
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Exit Smiling is perhaps the only film that ever fully utilized the comic genius of the incomparable Beatrice Lillie. The star...
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1926
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This so-so comedy starring Edward Everett Horton is notable because his co-star, Mae Busch, plays a domineering wife -- the...
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1926
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The Beautiful Cheat was a cute parody of the motion-picture business. Most of the story takes place in a fly-by-night movie...
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1926
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Stan Laurel had quit acting -- at least temporarily -- to focus on his work as a writer and director. This Hal Roach comedy...
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1926
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This first film version of the Otto Harbach-William Collison stage farce Up in Mabel's Room was released in 1926, the same...
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Jimmy Larchmont
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1926
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Lew Cody stars as Tony Townsend, a top-hatted "international adventurer" who gets into a heap of trouble when he runs out of...
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1926
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Although this isn't a top-notch Marion Davies film, she's still very charming in it. Mamie Smith (Davies in pigtails and...
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Texas
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1925
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This picture was adapted from a popular musical comedy. Colonel Dodge is a widower who enjoys his single status. After his...
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1924
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1924
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Viennese doctor Monte Blue is madly in love with his wife Florence Vidor--so much so that many suspect that they aren't...
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1924
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Christopher Skinner
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1924
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A bachelors' club is shaken when one of its members forfeits his five thousand dollar fee to wed. Then another member adopts...
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Robert Audrey
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1924
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Wesley Barry plays Brick Hubbard, a printer's devil, or printing apprentice, for a small town newspaper. When he is robbed,...
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1923
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Although Moving Picture World claimed that director Sidney A. Franklin's work on this drama earned him a long-term contract...
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Wilbur Lansing
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1923
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1923
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As a stage play, The Bad Man was a success because of its hilarious and colorful dialogue. That was lost when it was made...
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Red Giddings
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1923
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Paramount gave their newest star, an adolescent Douglas Fairbanks Jr., every advantage in his film debut. As support, young...
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Harry Stetson
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1923
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Grace Darmond stars as Jeanne Lee, the willing recipient of the affections of five ardent suitors. Selecting one of these...
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Ned Picard
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1922
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"Uncle Carl Laemmle had a big faemmle" -- so goes the little ditty penned by Oscar Levant. So one needn't wonder whether...
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1922
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Rex Ingram's talents as a director are very much in evidence in this drama, which is leavened by a sizable dose of comedy,...
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Gilly
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1922
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1922
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Although she came from a comedy background, Alice Lake preferred to concentrate on dramas during most of the 1920s. The...
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Bill Bailey
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1922
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Dick
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1922
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Story has it that Douglas Fairbanks was approached for the role of the Yankee, Martin Cavendish. It certainly would have made...
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The Yankee/Martin Cavendish
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1921
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Polly Gordon (Marie Prevost) is a dowdy-looking young coed who seems destined to become an old maid. Then an aunt leaves her...
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Artemis Alger
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1921
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When Charles Ray started taking control of his career, he tried -- unsuccessfully -- to steer his roles away from the "rube"...
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Benny Fielding
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1921
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1920
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Conquered Hearts was a vehicle for Marguerite Marsh, the pretty but modestly talented sister of silent screen superstar...
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1918
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Bishop Dorchester (Thomas Keeswald) and the Duke of Bilgewater (Henry Norman) are enemies. So when the Bishop's daughter,...
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Director
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1916
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Director
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1916
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Noted stage personality Wilton Lackaye was ostensibly the star of Universal's The Man of Shame. But since Lackaye's...
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Director
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1915
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Light comedian Harry Meyers wrote, directed and co-starred in 1915's The Earl of Pawtucket. The title role, however, was...
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Director
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1915
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