The notoriously temperamental Miriam Hopkins is ideally cast as equally contentious theatrical prima donna...
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1940
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In the last of Monogram's "Mr. Wong" whodunits, Keye Luke takes over from Boris Karloff as the Chinese detective Jimmy Lee...
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1940
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A mysterious visitor is found murdered in Mr. Wong's study in this, the third of Monogram's low-budget thrillers, featuring...
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Davidson, Bank Manager
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1939
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Too old to play the cute MGM urchin any longer, 16-year-old Jackie Cooper signed with Monogram for a group of above-average...
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1938
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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Signed for a series of B pictures by Universal in 1936, John Wayne alternated between westerns and modern-day adventure...
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1937
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A couple of American soldiers of fortune are hired by the wife of a Chinese general to deliver a priceless diamond to a...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave....
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1936
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In this crime comedy, a street-savvy gangster involves himself with a Miami socialite. Together, they conspire to turn her...
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1936
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1936
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This fast-paced Warner Bros. comedy stars James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as brothers who fight over the same girl. Mrs. O'Hara...
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1935
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One of Bela Lugosi's least remembered films, this ultra low-budget whodunit with science fiction overtones features the...
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1935
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The great wilderness explorer Daniel Boone has many exciting adventures in this family-oriented outdoor actioner that...
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1935
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A famous movie actress takes a trip to New York City. While there, she gets involved with a wisecracking cab driver who is...
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1935
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Ellery Queen, the scholarly amateur detective created in 1928 by cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee (who also used...
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1935
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Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) is a neophyte reporter with ambitions big enough to take on assignments usually reserved for...
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1935
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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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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Looking for all the world like a 2-reel comedy bloated to 6-reel proportions, Embarrassing Moments was directed by...
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1934
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A love triangle amidst the world of musical entertainment provides the basis for this drama. The trouble begins when a...
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1934
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In this comedy, two sisters work as assistants to a magician. The trouble begins when the day before a big show, the...
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1934
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Plodding through the dialogue-heavy script, this is still a timely movie topic. Dealing with white collar crime, this is the...
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1933
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Preston Foster, Mischa Auer, and Evalyn Knapp star in this tale of political intrigue centering on the quest of a powerful...
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1933
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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A Navy boxer falls in love with a popular dance-hall girl in this romantic drama. The man really should be spending all his...
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1933
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In this syrupy tear-jerker a young girl is adopted by the judge who sent her daddy to prison. The father agreed to this...
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1933
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In this drama, Joe Tomasso, a slightly corrupt gambler, goes completely straight after he catches an orphan hanging around...
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Attorney
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1933
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Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and...
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1933
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A star football player in college, Garry King (Richard Arlen) finds post-college life very different; he betrays the trust of...
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1932
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As evidenced by its title, Chesterfield's The King Murder was partially inspired by the infamous Dot King extortion case of...
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1932
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Also known as From Broadway to Cheyenne, this Rex Bell vehicle is an excellent amalgam of the western and gangster genres....
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1932
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It is all but impossible to dislike a film as gloriously corny as The Phantom Express. The title is derived from an early...
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1932
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Inspired, it was stated at the time, by a real event, this minor but well-made Poverty Row mystery features Claudia Dell as...
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Mr. Gordon
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1932
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Kente
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1932
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Like many low-budgeters of the early talkie era, Sally of the Subway is not so much a film as a reunion of several former...
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1932
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In this drama, the son of a shipping tycoon is left to reflect upon his life after his lover abandons him. He decides that...
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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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In the first years of the talkies, every studio drew up plans to release annual "all-star" musical spectacles, but only Fox...
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1930
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In this sassy romantic comedy, Clive Brook plays Neil Dunlap, a lawyer who is heartbroken when his wife leaves him. Neil is...
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Grant Crosby
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1930
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In this drama, a married team of vaudeville dancers break up when the wife gets a real acting job. Time passes and the duo...
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Juan Rinaldi
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1929
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In this early sound drama, an ex-socialite is forced to get a job after hard times cause her to lose her fortune. In her new...
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Burke Innes
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1929
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In this moving drama, a young woman is forced to take care of her many brothers and sisters while their wealthy parents live...
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Cliff Wheater
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1929
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Steve Farrell
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1928
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Jerry (John Harron), a $40-a-week working stiff, is in love with Peggy (June Marlowe). But while attending a weekend society...
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1928
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Marshall
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1928
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Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can...
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1928
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Virtuous Ann Hardy (Olive Borden) manages to land a job running the roulette wheel in a busy gambling emporium. Soon,...
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Ted Wells
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1928
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Corinne Griffith stars in this 1928 remake of the 1922 melodrama Outcast. Both films were based on a play by Hubert Henry...
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1928
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1928
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The "certain young man" of the title is Lord Gerald Brinsley, played by Ramon Novarro. A carefree young bachelor, Lord Gerald...
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1928
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Billie Dove stars as "Egypt" Hagen, a libertine flapper who unexpectedly falls in love with the staid Reverend Lodge...
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Ray Sturgis
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1927
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The Carters (Irene Rich and Huntley Gordon), a nouveau riche couple from Peoria, Illinois, decide to take a trip to Europe in...
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John Carter
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1927
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This portentously (and pretentiously) titled Fox Studios release stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of...
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1927
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Socialite Ruth Rowan (Lillian Rich) is trapped in The Golden Web when she falls in love with the Wrong Man. Betrayal and...
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Roland Deane
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1926
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Husband Huntley Gordon has convinced himself that he's the head of the household, but the viewer knows full well that wifey...
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Robert
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1926
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Alma Rubens, a hauntingly beautiful silent screen actress whose career was cut short by drug addiction, stars in The Gilded...
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John Converse
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1926
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Proof that Anna Q. Nilsson had completely recovered from a recent injury was offered by her willingness to tackle a dual role...
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Judge Jeffries
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1926
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Flighty Denise Lake (Irene Rich) tries to be faithful to her husband Howard (Huntley Gordon), but while vacationing in...
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Howard Lake
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1926
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Two graduates of Mack Sennett's "Bathing Beauties," Marie Prevost and Phyllis Haver, are co-starred in Warner Bros.' Other...
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Philip Harding
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1926
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Louis J. Gasnier, whose directorial technique suffered a case of arrested development sometime in 1912, wielded the megaphone...
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Richard Lane
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1926
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As their 25th anniversary approaches, Stuart Borden (Huntley Gordon) and his wife (Irene Rich) are not exactly happily...
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Mr. Stuart Borden
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1925
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This routine Warner Brothers melodrama was based on the novel by Ruth Cross. Country girl Molly Shannon (Helene Chadwick)...
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Gregory Cochrane
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1925
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One of the final films bearing the Vitagraph stamp before that company was completely absorbed by Warner Bros., this silent...
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Rex Westmore
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1925
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Young Bob Mannering (John Harron) is out for a ride with his fast-living pals when they're involved in a car accident which...
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John Mannering
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1925
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The title to this picture came from a Rudyard Kipling poem, and accurately reflected the attitude of Victorian and...
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Mark Mellenger
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1925
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Pendleton Wayne
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1924
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Betty Compson has solid support from some of the better character actors of the day in this adaptation of Owen Johnson's book...
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1924
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This society drama is told in a rather interesting manner, opening with a senator telling the story of a man who came back...
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1924
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Two of the silent screen's major stars, beautiful blonde Alice Terry and British-born Conway Tearle, starred in this lavishly...
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Philip Jordan
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1924
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Although Clara Bow was not yet a full-fledged star, she had already made a mark by mid-'20s. In this melodrama, said trade...
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John Warriner
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1924
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Centering a story on the dilemmas of a "modern business woman" seemed like a fine idea in 1924, so Rupert Hughes (whose...
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Frank Parry
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1924
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Future MGM star Norma Shearer was still an up-and-coming young starlet when she made an impressive appearance as the flapper...
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Hugh Benton
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1923
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Norma O'Neill (Katherine McDonald) is an aspiring actress who tries to prove a vampish screen persona does not interfere with...
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Darcy Roche
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1923
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Although Viola Dana was primarily a light comedian, she performed capably in this courtroom drama. The capricious Babs Van...
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Judge Evans Grant
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1923
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This romantic drama gave filmgoers everything they expected from a Gloria Swanson picture -- fancy settings, gorgeous...
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John Brandon
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1923
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A young and still inexperienced Norma Shearer was originally cast in the lead role of Myra Hastings in this society drama --...
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1923
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This "real life" drama starred some of the best second-string talent at Metro, and first-class screenwriter Frances Marion...
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Jeffrey Fair
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1923
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This light comedy suited Viola Dana quite well. She plays Mary Bishop, a small town girl whose sweetheart, Fred Garrison...
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Fred Garrison
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1923
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No wonder Enid Bennett never rose above second-string stardom -- all too often she was thrust into shoddy pictures like this...
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Hugh Stanton
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1923
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This picture is based on the novel by Leroy Scott. Because of her brains and charming manner, Cordelia Marlowe is called "the...
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D. K. Franklin
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1923
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This drama, based on the novel, The Mayor's Wife, by Anna Katherine Greene, was only a fair vehicle for Betty Blythe. Shortly...
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Henry Packard
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1922
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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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If her scenes had not ended up on the cutting-room floor, this uneven drama would have been the film debut of Clara Bow...
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1922
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When author Fannie Hurst suggested that married couples would be happier if they kept separate residences, it titillated...
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1922
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This moralistic domestic drama uses a flapper as the main character in a weak attempt to appear "modern" (at least in 1922...
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Bartley Claybourne
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1922
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Post-World War I youth were a different breed from prior generations, and this drama, adapted from the Cosmo Hamilton story,...
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Harrison Thornby
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1922
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Enchantment is a thoroughly delightful bit of froth, tailor-made for the talents of Marion Davies. Our heroine plays Ethel,...
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1921
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Billie Dove and Elizabeth North star as inseparable sisters who grow up to become chorus girls. Jealousy rears its ugly...
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1921
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This romantic drama finds Charley Riley (Eugene O'Brien) as a chivalrous young man who is always willing to help a damsel in...
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Geoffrey Small
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1921
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Lorenzo Carilo (Conway Tearle) is a waiter at the Ritz who is introduced to Martha Mansfield (Vivian Forrester) as the Duke...
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1921
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The Dark Mirror is the first of two Hollywood films of that title dealing with "doppelganger" twin sisters. The later film,...
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1920
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1920
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The "red foam" of the title refers to the angry passion of revenge -- a typically poetic silent era touch. A girl (Zena...
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Arnold Driscoll
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1920
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Flotsam (Olive Thomas) is the tomboy daughter of a lighthouse keeper with a dark secret: he killed a man. At least, that's...
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1920
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Adapted from a series of short stories by Edna Ferber, Our Mrs. McChesney was transformed into a stage vehicle for...
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1918
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