A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a...
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1966
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A more appropriate title for this animated 60-minute special might have been Alice in Hanna-Barbera Land, since the cartoon...
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1966
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Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness...
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1964
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In this final chapter of a four-episode story arc, legendary Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper appears as herself. Hedda is up...
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1964
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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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Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by...
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1960
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This live Playhouse 90 episode dramatizes the life of celebrated Washington party-giver Perle Mesta, who had earlier served...
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Maizie Weldon
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1957
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Charlie Pomerantz (Hy Averback), press agent for Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz), arranges a publicity stunt whereby Ricky will...
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Herself
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1955
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Breakfast in Hollywood was loosely based on the ABC radio program of the same name. Tom Breneman, the series' host, appears...
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1946
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1942
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The box-office success of Paramount's What a Life (1939), coupled with the popularity of the spinoff Henry Aldrich radio...
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Mrs. Aldrich
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1941
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Three disparate young men struggle to become Army Air Corps pilots in this rousing drama that earned an Oscar for its...
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1941
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Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and...
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1940
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Eleanor Browne's novel Highway to Romance was the source for this moneyspinning RKO Radio comedy. Obviously inspired by...
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Mrs. North
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1940
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Elizabeth Rockingham
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1939
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In this comedy drama, young high school student Henry Aldrich tries to tone down his natural mischievousness and shuck the...
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1939
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Lucille Ball plays young starlet Sandra Sand in That's Right -- You're Wrong, the 1939 musical comedy directed by...
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1939
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Paramount's screwball comedy Midnight is the first collaboration between director Mitchell Leisen and screenwriting duo...
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1939
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Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
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1939
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Polly Griscom
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1938
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In this drama, a gangster finds the woman of his dreams, but before he can have her he must frame her fiance. Meanwhile the...
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1938
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While the "Tarzan" series was going full blast at MGM, several independent producers managed to secure the screen rights to...
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Penny
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1938
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Joan Fontaine was still two years away from full stardom when she appeared in the B-plus comedy Maid's Night Out. Future...
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Mrs. Harrison
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1938
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"This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each...
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1937
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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1937
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An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a highly superstitious racehorse owner spends his time off the track helping the less fortunate in any...
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1937
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Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an...
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1937
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Hoping to ape the success of Sol Lesser's Bobby Breen musicals, Republic Pictures fashioned Dangerous Holiday as a movie...
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Lottie
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1937
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It may be sacrilege to say so, but Dracula's Daughter is an immense improvement over the original 1931 Dracula, despite the...
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1936
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Mrs. Tallman
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1936
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Doughnuts and Society is the first of several attempts by Republic Pictures to create a new screen team comparable to MGM's...
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Mrs. Murray Hill
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1936
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1936
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The indomitable May Robson is firmly in the driver's seat of this Runyonesque comedy-drama. While riding through Central...
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1935
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Hoping to avoid the new inheritance tax, eccentric millionaire Jasper Whyte (Charles Grapewin) gathers together his greedy...
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1935
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Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry...
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1935
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A variation on the Lady for a Day theme, Universal's Lady Tubbs stars Alice Brady as Henrietta "Mom" Tubbs, the no-nonsense...
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1935
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In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild...
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Mrs. John Winfield
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1935
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In this comedy, a woman lives with her recently impoverished family who would do anything to regain their former wealth and...
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Mrs. Vandergriff
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1935
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1935
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Universal's Bombay Mail adheres to the pattern established by Paramount's Shanghai Express, with a group of Calcutta-bound...
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1934
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1934
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Set in Germany shortly before the collapse of the Weimar Republic, this romantic drama chronicles the travails of an...
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1934
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The beauty-parlor craze of the early 1930s was given a good going-over in MGM's Beauty for Sale. Madge Evans,...
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1933
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John Ford directed this emotional drama, which was a considerable change of pace from the westerns and war pictures for which...
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1933
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In this drama, Diana (Myrna Loy) is a beautiful tourist from the United States who is visiting Cairo, accompanied by her...
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1933
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A remarried war widow's attempts to raise her son to be a pacifist are thwarted when a second world war (this film was made...
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1933
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Buster Keaton's best sound feature casts the Great Stone Face as Professor Post, a naïve college pedant who mistakenly...
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Mrs. Peets
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1932
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In this murder mystery, everyone around a murdered movie producer is a suspect, including his girl friend. Most of those...
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1932
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Anyone who believes that the career of silent screen idol John Gilbert ended because his voice has too high for the talkies...
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Countess
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1932
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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Production for MGM, this well made Grand Hotel clone was based on a 1931...
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1932
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George Arliss is a world-renowned pianist, engaged to a young woman (Bette Davis) much younger than himself. An explosion...
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1932
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Night World is an astonishingly compact 57-minute extravaganza, all of which takes place at the upscale (but somewhat...
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1932
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This complex '30s film is based upon a play by Pirandello which involved a hapless amnesiac. In As You Desire Me, the...
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Madame Mantari
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1932
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1931
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High-class call girls provide the focus of this intelligent romantic comedy that takes a rather scathing look at the...
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1931
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Though silent star John Gilbert's talking pictures were habitual money-losers, the stubborn actor insisted that MGM honor his...
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1931
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Flying High was a nonsensical Broadway musical hit of 1930 starring Bert Lahr. The film version, made one year later by MGM,...
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1931
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1931
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Callie
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1931
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A man finds he's torn between two women -- which isn't a good state of affairs for a man who just got married -- in this...
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Liz Crawford
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1931
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In this melodrama that was considered utterly scandalous in its day, an impoverished, beautiful young ghetto girl quickly...
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1931
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A wealthy man's mistress abandons her luxurious life as a kept woman to be with the struggling Paris artist she has come to...
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Mrs. Clare Collis
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1931
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Future gossip columnist Hedda Hopper enjoyed one of her few top-billed movie roles in the independently-produced thriller...
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Mrs. Radcliffe
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1931
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Actor Robert Montgomery would serve as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve during WWII, but he was just a lowly seaman in...
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1931
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In this romance, a disillusioned wife, learning that her husband has been unfaithful, divorces him and moves to Paris where...
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Madge Livingston
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1930
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In this drama an unattractive, dour German businessman leaps out of a flying plane after learning that his wife only married...
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Muriel Wyndham
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1930
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War Nurse was based on the anonymous memoirs of an American nurse who served with the French Army during WWI. Since the...
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1930
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Susan Potter
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1930
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Jack Mulhall stars as Leonard Staunton, a businessman whose future is threatened by a trio of mysterious blackmailers. The...
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1930
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1930
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This version of Shakespeare's most famous love story is set in Scarsdale, New York. This time, the heroine comes from an old...
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Mrs. Divine
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1930
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In this drama, an early talky, a horse race determines a woman's romantic fate. The trouble begins when she finds herself...
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1929
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Lady Marie
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1929
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This late-20s gangster movie features Carole Lombard as a young gal who agrees to marry a smooth-talking gangster in exchange...
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1929
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Based on Olympia, a 1928 Ferenc Molnar stage soufflé, His Glorious Night has gone down in history as having more or less...
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Mrs. Collingsworth Stratton
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1929
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This loosely-constructed romantic melodrama stars Olive Borden as society girl Judy Paige, who defies her parents by eloping...
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1929
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One of the livelier late-silent entries in the "Our Gang" series, Cat, Dog & Co. begins with the kids thoughtlessly abusing...
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1929
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In this drama, a young woman gets angry when her boyfriend's father, a motorcycle cop, stops her for speeding, refuses her...
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1929
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1928
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Far in the mysterious East there lies an island that exists under the radar of any law or authority. This haven for thieves...
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1928
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Based on the comic strip by Carl Ed, Harold Teen stars future "Dagwood Bumstead" Arthur Lake in the title role. Upon arriving...
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1928
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1928
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Having been in show biz since infancy, Broadway chorus girl Beatrice (Virginia Brown Faire) regrets her lack of formal...
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1928
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1928
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In his later interviews, director Allan Dwan seldom had anything to say about his 1928 opus Whip Woman -- and who could blame...
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Countess Ferenzi; Julanne Johnston (Miss Haldane
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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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Mrs. Hartley
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1928
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Olive Grenshaw
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1927
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One of the most accessible of the Colleen Moore silent vehicles, Orchids and Ermine also happens to be among Moore's best and...
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1927
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'That's either your wife or your sister-in-law!" declares Gwen Lee to Aileen Pringle in the middle of Adam and Evil. This...
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Eleanor Leighton
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1927
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Mrs. Aldrich
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1927
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The oft-filmed Gene Stratton-Porter novel The Magic Garden was given a splendid (if economical) screen treatment by FBO...
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1927
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Kitty Flanders (Yvonne Pelletier), Jean Waddington and Ted Larrabee (Don Marion) are all "children of divorce" -- the two...
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1927
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Wings, the first feature film to win an Academy Award, tends to disappoint a little when seen today. Too much time is...
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1927
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The same year H.B. Warner portrayed Jesus Christ in The King of Kings, he let down his hair in the drawing-room comedy French...
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1927
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The silent The Dropkick stars Richard Barthelmess as a talented but hopelessly conceited college football star. Because of...
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1927
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Actor-director Ralph Graves, the "auteur" of Columbia Pictures, paid a brief visit to Warner Bros. to put together Reno...
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1927
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Too proud to accept handouts from the father (Warren Cook) of his socialite girlfriend Virginia (Hedda Hopper), Lew Tyler...
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1926
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Valentina
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1926
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The celebrated Joseph Conrad novel The Silver Treasure was brought to the screen as Silver Treasure in 1926. The story is set...
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1926
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Marcin Asher plays Henry "Pushcart" Wilson, who has parlayed his tiny streetcorner operation into a thriving business...
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1926
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Back in the 1920's, "caveman" was a slang term for a man who treated women rough and made 'em love it. We have other names...
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1926
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The best of comic actor Reginald Denny's silent vehicles, Skinner's Dress Suit is a surprising contemporary piece about...
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1926
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1926
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Advertised as a "crook society comedy," Columbia's Obey the Law features Bert Lytell in a role not unlike his frequent screen...
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1926
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Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no...
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1926
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Laura La Plante stars in this light comedy, directed by her future husband, William Seiter (the couple were wed in 1927 and...
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Margaret Wyndham
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1925
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Mrs. Borden
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1925
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After being raised in England, Ann Church (Laura La Plante) sails back to her parents in Bombay. She meets Major Anthony...
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1925
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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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1925
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On a voyage from India to London, it is rumored that an infamous cracksman is onboard -- of course, it is Raffles (House...
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Mrs. Clarice Vidal
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1925
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1925
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1925
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Although John Gilbert became famous for playing the romantic lover, there was something inside him that occasionally rebelled...
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Mrs. Leiter
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1924
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Action star Ben Wilson enjoyed a modicum of success as an independent producer in the 1920s. One of Wilson's least typical...
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1924
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Although she was well over forty when Happiness was filmed, Laurette Taylor was still specializing in girlish charm. Director...
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Crystal Pole
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1924
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With its racy title and emphasis on jazz parties and youth, this romantic drama was a typical mid-'20s release. But being an...
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1924
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This comedy-drama was based on the successful play by Avery Hopwood, who was known for his tales of domestic turmoil. It...
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1924
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This breezy summer comedy-drama was shot on-location in Florida. It was typical fun 1920s fare, which Moving Picture World...
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Mary Tate
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1924
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After breaking away from Paramount, the company he helped form in 1912, W. W. Hodkinson had to make do with tiny budgets and...
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1924
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Written and directed by Rupert Hughes to take a jab at the inconsistent divorce laws (back in the days when marriages were...
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1923
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Has the World Gone Mad? answers its own question by detailing the sinful excesses of the "Jazz Age." Future gossip columnist...
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Mrs. Adams
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1923
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John Barrymore's impressive performance in this picture is a testament to the strength of his talent, because it had a lot to...
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1922
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The answer to the burning question posed by this low-budget domestic drama was that they tended to want more from life than...
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1922
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Although it wasn't much more than a standard programmer, this society drama was well cast. When he loses both his wife and...
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1922
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Although the plot to this Northwoods tale reads like a comedy, it was apparently meant to be a drama. William Crombie...
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Mrs. Crombie
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1921
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This drama was an interesting, although unsuccessful, attempt at combining a film with on-stage scenes (about the only one...
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His Wife
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1921
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Former ingenue Alice Brady took her first step towards the dizzy society matrons she'd play in the talkie era in the 1920...
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1920
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1920
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1919
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Rich college student Howard Jeffries, Jr. (Gladden James) falls in love with waitress Annie Sands (Alice Joyce). They get...
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1919
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1919
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Based on a novel by Frank L. Packard, The Beloved Traitor stars Mae Marsh as Mary Garland, a resident of a Maine fishing...
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1918
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Nearly Married was based on a stage comedy by Edgar Selwyn, best known today as the co-founder of Goldwyn Studios. Newlyweds...
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1917
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Though not his motion picture debut as has often been claimed, Seven Keys to Baldpate was George M. Cohan's most popular...
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1917
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William Farnum plays Martin Cane, owner of a prosperous fleet of fishing boats. Not the nicest fellow on earth, Cane bullies...
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1916
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