David O. Selznick had intended to film an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night as a vehicle for his wife...
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1961
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Based on the novel The Cup and the Sword by Alice Tisdale Hobart, this drama examines the trials and tribulations of three...
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1959
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1959
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Brooding Gregory Peck arrives in a small western town to witness the hanging of the men whom he holds responsible for the...
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1958
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For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. Its main...
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1957
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Carousel was adapted from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical of the same name--which, in turn, was based on...
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1956
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1955
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Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong...
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1955
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1953
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The upbeat title belies the film's often melancholy subject matter. Based on a novel by Ferdinand Reyher, Nellie stars...
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1952
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Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for...
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1952
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This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great...
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1952
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In this inspiring drama, William Thompson (William Lundigan) is a minister from the deep South who has recently married Mary...
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1951
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David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David...
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1951
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In this classic noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks...
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1950
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Filmed entirely on location in Italy, Prince of Foxes is an adaptation of Samuel Shellabarger's popular novel. Set during the...
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1949
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How much can a man give? When the U.S. 8th Army Air Force 918th Bombardment group is ordered on their fourth harrowing...
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1949
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In this drama, filmed on location in Maine, the life of a young lobster fisherman is forever changed by an orphan boy. It...
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1948
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In this big-budget historical adventure, Tyrone Power stars as Pedro De Vargas, a young and impetuous nobleman in 16th...
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1947
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Nostalgic and sweet, this tuneful comedy centers on a mother's reminiscence of her wild time as a 1920s teenage flapper....
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1946
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Director Henry King's adaptation of John Hersey's novel is a faithful telling of the story of Major Joppolo (John Hodiak),...
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1945
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In this musical, a messenger boy does a remarkable imitation of Bing Crosby and finds himself surrounded by luscious little...
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1945
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian teams up with a barber and becomes a smash hit. The barber also finds himself falling...
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1943
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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1943
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In this upbeat WW II musical, a popular band joins the army with the idea of putting on shows for troops overseas. During...
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Gil Whitney
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1942
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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Perhaps unintentionally, the 1942 Technicolor swashbuckler The Black Swan is a bondage fetishist's dream, with hero and...
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1942
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1941
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1941
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1940
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The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical)...
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1940
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Henry Fonda plays Chad Hanna, a New York country bumpkin of the mid-nineteenth century who joins a travelling circus. He...
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1940
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The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by...
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1939
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Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley...
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1939
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In Old Chicago was 20th Century-Fox's spin on MGM's San Francisco--a personal saga played out against the backdrop of a...
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1938
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1938
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This romantic tearjerker was the second film based on the popular 1922 stage play. James Stewart stars as Chico, a lowly...
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1937
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First filmed in 1910, the venerable Helen Hunt Jackson novel Ramona was remade in 1936 in full Technicolor (20th...
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1936
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The well-publicized (and overexploited) birth of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets in 1934 formed the basis of The Country Doctor....
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1936
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Lloyds of London traces the rise to prominence of the venerable British insurance company, as seen through the eyes of...
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1936
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One More Spring is a laundered version of Robert Nathan's whimsical Depression-era novel. Left destitute by the Wall Street...
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1935
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This tragic melodrama is a remake of Griffith's 1920 film, Way Down East. The story centers upon a starving, impoverished...
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1935
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Movie newcomer Ketti Gallian plays Marie Gallante, who is abducted by a most ungallant drunken sea captain. He leaves her...
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1934
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Carolina, a melodrama directed by Henry King, follows a young woman's attempt to restore a southern plantation back to its...
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1934
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1933
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The 1933 State Fair was the first of three film versions of the Phillip Stong bestseller. Some consider it the best of the...
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1933
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Beautiful composer Laura Ramsey (Elissa Landi) is the principal suspect when her lover, philandering singer Victor Legrand...
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1932
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In this drama a pianist-composer falls in love with the charwoman who cleans his boardinghouse room. Eventually, she too,...
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1931
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1931
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Even allowing for the comparative freedom of the pre-Production Code years, 1930's Hell Harbor was pretty strong meat for its...
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1930
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Still in the "Lillian Gish" phase of her career, Una Merkel plays the put-upon heroine in The Eyes of the World. The story...
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Director, Executive Producer
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1930
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Lightnin' is based on the 1918 stage play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon, in which Bacon (the father of director...
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Director, Producer
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1930
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In spite of its unbelievable storyline, She Goes to War manages to sustain interest from first reel to last. During WWI,...
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Director, Executive Producer
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1929
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Long-reigning screen queen Norma Talmadge's last silent film (albeit with a synchronized musical score) was the exotic...
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1928
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1927
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A very popular silent western, this film features two engineers vying for the affections of the adoptive daughter of a...
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1926
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1926
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One of the silent era's most popular tearjerkers, this soapy melodrama was adapted by legendary screenwriter Frances Marion...
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1925
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Filmed on location in Italy, where director Henry King ruled over a huge set that covered 17 acres, Romola stars...
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Director, Producer
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1925
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Polly Freeman (Dorothy Sebastian, then a fresh newcomer from Ziegfeld's Follies) is a frivolous young girl who goes West and...
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Director, Producer
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1925
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When Ellen Linden (Alice Terry) returns from finishing school, she discovers that her father has lost his fortune. Although...
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1925
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Lillian Gish plays the girl whose travails begin when her father dies and her conniving sister cheats her out of her...
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1923
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1923
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Like Tol'able David, this Richard Barthelmess picture was directed by Henry King. It's nowhere near as strong as Tol'able...
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1922
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Once again, actor Richard Barthelmess and director Henry King team up in an attempt to recreate the magic of Tol'able David....
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1922
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1922
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Richard Barthelmess stars in this classic silent melodrama as David Kinemon, the youngest son of a family living in a small...
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1921
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1921
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A subdued Pauline Frederick plays against her usual worldly type in this slow-moving melodrama. The husband of Lady Myra...
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1921
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1921
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Stage star William Elliot (no relation to cowboy hero William "Wild Bill" Elliott starred in this first movie version of the...
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1921
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When Jimmy Doyle (H.B. Warner) is released after serving yet another prison term, his dying pal, jewel thief Bill Preston...
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1920
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Even luminaries such as actress Blanche Sweet and director Henry King had off days and they must have been going through...
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1920
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Author George Clayton (H.B. Warner) is a skeptic when it comes to hypnotism. Nevertheless, he allows mesmerist Norman Osgood...
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1920
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The conservative, political sentiments of Americans in the 1920s were decidedly anti-communist, and this comedy-drama lends a...
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1920
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This drama was based on the novel by William J. Locke. Physician Sylvester Lanyon (H.B. Warner) has such high ideals when it...
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1920
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This mystery comedy was based on the novel, House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholsorf (the book was also made into a...
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1920
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Based on a true story, All the World to Nothing stars William Russell as an honest young stockbroker. Spiritually seduced by...
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1919
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1919
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John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl,...
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1919
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H.B. Warner takes a break from his usual heavy dramas to star in this light comedy. Stephan Van Courtlandt (Warner) belongs...
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1919
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Director Henry King was really beginning to show what he was capable of around the time he made this witty little western. It...
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1919
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Captain November Jones (William Russell) returns to his home in the West after fighting in the Great War and earning three...
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1919
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When pre-1920 silent films weren't glorifying the Northwest Mounted Police, it seemed like they were hailing the Texas...
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1919
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Kingston Hollister (William Russell) admires Bernice Cleveland (Eileen Percy) from afar. He asks Officer Callahan (Frank...
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1919
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1919
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Honoring the wishes of their wealthy parents, Gregory Thorne (William Russell) and Marta Milbanke (Charlotte Burton) become...
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1918
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1918
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Beauty and the Rogue afforded Mary Miles Minter the opportunity to play a dual role, which delighted the actress' legions of...
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1918
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Filmed by the Balboa Company in 1916, this series in eight chapters, originally entitled Who Wins?, was an idea whose time...
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1918
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William Russell was a very popular star in the 1910s, best known for his action-packed features and serials. So when he...
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1918
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Most actors wait all their lives for the challenge of playing two different characters in the same film; child star...
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1917
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Henry King was relatively new to directing, and Lew Cody -- still being billed as Louis J. Cody -- had not yet earned his...
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1917
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In this Baby Marie Osborne film, little Mary (played by Osborne) is celebrating her fourth birthday party by putting on a...
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1917
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Silent child star Baby Marie Osmond displays her charms once again in this five-reel feature. She is little Mary Sunshine,...
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1917
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This "lost" film from the Henry King canon would well be worth re-viewing. Gail Kane was cast as the wife of a prosecuting...
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1917
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Henry King both directed and starred in this drama. William Beerdhelm Van Broon (King) has worked his way down the social...
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1917
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1917
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Henry King was some distance from his days of glory as a top Hollywood director when he called the shots on Joy and the...
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1916
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1915
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Taking a brief break from her damsel-in-distress duties in the Pathe serial Neal of the Navy, former Ziegfeld Follies beauty...
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1915
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When Ruth Nolan (Edith Reeves) repels the advances of her boss, he fires her. She can't find a new job and she passes out...
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1915
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Future director Henry King stars in this Balboa three-reel drama. Harry Wentworth (King) is the profligate son of a ranch...
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Harry Wentworth
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1914
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