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1948
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1948
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In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving...
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1947
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New Orleans is Republic Pictures' spin on such "musical origin" films as Birth of the Blues and Dixie. Covering nearly four...
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1947
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One of John Wayne's most mystical films, Angel and the Badman is also the first production that Wayne personally produced....
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Mrs. Worth
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1947
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Mrs. Bryant
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1942
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In this drama, a young groom finds his marriage in trouble when he begins working for his bride's demanding father. ~ Sandra...
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1942
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This Buck Privates knockoff concerns the misadventures of the three Patterson brothers: Charley (Wayne Morris), Eddie (Tom...
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Margaret Patterson
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1941
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In addition to his supporting-player duties at MGM, Frank Morgan could always be counted upon to star in the studio's...
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Mrs. Thomas
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1941
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Columbia's The Lady in Question is a remake of the French Gribouille, a Raimu vehicle from 1939. Brian Aherne plays Andre...
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Michele Morestan
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1940
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The Nazi Party's rise to power has disastrous consequences for a German family in this drama. Victor Roth (Frank Morgan) is a...
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1940
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This adventure is based on Jack London's tale of a Northwestern woman who owns a riverboat who sends her daughter to...
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Sadie
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1940
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In this family-style comedy, the trouble begins when a good father loses his job at the local newspaper when the publication...
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Mrs. Leslie
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1939
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In this musical romantic comedy of 1938, Deanna Durbin plays Alice Fullerton, a young woman of a "certain age" who is prone...
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Mrs. Fullerton
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1938
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Idy Peters
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1932
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Mayfair Productions had an absolute genius for coming up with titles that would drive away audiences. Wisely, Mayfair's 1932...
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Joan Manners
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1932
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This drama is a compilation of stories occurring in the Empire State Building with the focus on topics such as bank...
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1932
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Wallace Beery won an Academy Award for his tour de force performance as a washed-up boxer. The bibulous Beery travels from...
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Linda
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1931
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Wicked stars Elissa Landi as Margot Rande, a basically decent woman led down the path to perdition by her bank-robber husband...
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1931
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Hoping to benefit from the popularity of the 1927 silent version of P.C. Wren's Beau Geste, RKO Radio reunited the earlier...
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1931
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Jenny Rarick
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1931
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Celia
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1931
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Based on a story by Booth Tarkington, Father's Son stars juvenile actor Leon Janney in the title role. Thanks to his...
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Ruth Emory
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1931
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This offbeat WWI drama concentrates not on Men in War (there are in fact no men in the picture!), but on their women. The...
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Mrs. Schuyler
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1931
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Check and Double Check brought radio's highest-rated program to the big screen. Amos 'N' Andy were two black characters...
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1930
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Will Rogers' second starring talkie feature was a spiritual twin of the first, They Had to See Paris, albeit with a...
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Mrs. Hiram Draper
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1930
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In this drama, a New York dressmaker struggles to make it big so she can provide a good life for her beloved son. As her son...
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Julianne
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1930
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1929
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Ostensibly based on an "original story" by Arthur Hoerl, Shanghai Rose would seem to have been derived from the then-popular...
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1929
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Carol
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1929
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Will Rogers' first all-talking feature casts the beloved humorist as Pike Peters, owner of an auto repair shop in Claremore,...
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Mrs. Peters
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1929
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In this romantic fantasy, a delightful flapper princess refuses to marry her intended, a prince she has never met. Later she...
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Queen Charlotte of Capra
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1929
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Fritzi Foy
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1928
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Advertised as a talking picture, the 6-reel Women They Talk About contains only 2 reels of sound. Widowed Irene Mervin Hughes...
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Irene Mervin Hughes
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1928
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George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife was given three screen treatments by Hollywood. The first of these...
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Mrs. Craig
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1928
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1928
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Stella
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1928
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The Climbers is the third film version of the same-named play by Clyde Fitch. Whereas the original play took place in...
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Duchess of Aragon
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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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Mrs. Carter
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1927
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The Silver Slave is Bernice Randall (Irene Rich), who marries for money rather than love. This she has done for the sake of...
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Bernice Randall
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1927
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Irene Rich heads the cast of this lachrymose "mother love" drama. Rich is cast as Sylvia "Dearie" Darling, a nightclub...
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Sylvia Darling/Dearie
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1927
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Even in the early stages of his Warner Bros. career, director Michael Curtiz was eager and willing to tackle any sort of...
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Diana Maxwell
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1927
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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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Denise Lake
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1926
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Corpulent middle-aged Willard Louis fancies himself God's gift to women, indulging in various affairs while his frumpy wife...
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Mrs. Lambert
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1926
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Unable to rely upon Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic dialogue to carry the day (this was, after all, the silent-film era), director...
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Mrs. Erlynne
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1925
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1925
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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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Mrs. Stuart Borden
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1925
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Joan Wiswell
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1925
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Forever forced to take a back seat to her pretty, popular younger sister Pauline Garon, Irene Rich manages to land handsome...
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Joan Trevore
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1925
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After cutting his teeth on Mack Sennett comedies, this drama became Roy Del Ruth's first serious film. Eve Burnside (Irene...
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Eve Burnside
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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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Mrs. John Mannering
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1925
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This standard but solid programmer was put out by a company called C.B.C., a Poverty Row studio derisively called "Corned...
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1924
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John Barrymore is virtually the entire show as 18th-century British fashion plate Beau Brummel. Thanks to his sartorial...
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Duchess of York
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1924
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Isabelle Morton
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1924
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Darius Carpenter (Frank Currier) prides respectability above all else, and he's not thrilled when his son, Charles...
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Suzanne Schuyler
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1924
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In spite of the depressing, often tragic, circumstances in this drama, director Finis Fox somehow managed to add in comic...
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Mrs. Ransdell
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1924
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Irene Rich plays a selfish and tragic figure in this drama based on a best-selling novel by Willa Cather. Marian (Rich) is...
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Marian Forrester
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1924
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn gave his usual top-drawer treatment to Cytherea, making this pulpish romance seem more important than...
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Fannie Randon
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1924
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Irene Rich was one of Warner Bros.' new stars when she made this drama. Poverty-stricken singer Carol Drayton (Rich) attempts...
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Carol Drayton
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1924
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Before he became the king of bottom-barrel B pictures, director William Beaudine turned out several silent films of...
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Ruth Laurence
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1923
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When Beth Alden (Irene Rich), the daughter of the prominent local banker, goes on a hayride with Jack Fenton (Monte Blue), a...
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1923
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This sentimental drama was based on the novel by Gene Stratton Porter, and Porter herself supervised the filming. Michael...
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Nellie Minturn
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1923
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Lest exhibitors didn't think the source material's title (based on a novel by then-popular writer Kathleen Norris) was...
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Lucretia Morgan
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1923
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This obscure silent Western was a typical example of the pioneer spirit still alive in the 1920s. Producer Morris R. Schlank,...
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1923
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This drama -- slightly sensational and moralistic -- was typical of the feature fare put out by low-budget film company...
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Megan Daye
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1923
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This historical comedy-drama resulted from the unlikely collaboration of girlish silent star Mary Pickford and sophisticated...
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The Queen
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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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Mrs. Grotenberg
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1923
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Marion Wells
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1922
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This Hampton Del Ruth production is a very odd comedy-drama. Two sisters, Eleanor and Mary Douglas (Alta Allen and Irene Rich...
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Mary Douglas
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1922
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When he made this film, Lon Chaney's fame was already established, but he was only inches away from superstardom -- a few...
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The Teacher
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1922
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In this creaky, old-fashioned melodrama, Dustin Farnum plays a man who is too heroic to be believed. Two cousins, good guy...
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Eve Marsham
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1922
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With the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle scandal and the William Desmond Taylor murder still fresh in people's minds, it's a wonder...
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Mrs. Schuyler
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1922
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Veteran silent star Henry Walthall shines in this drama, based on the novel by Frances Nimmo Greene. In spite of the...
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Maggie Thornton
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1922
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Leatrice Joy and Richard Dix play an ambitious couple in this domestic drama. John and Katherine Colby (Dix and Joy) decide...
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Mrs. Holt
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1921
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In this silent crime melodrama, an ex-con marries a teacher and tries to start a new life in the city. Unfortunately, he is...
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Laura Chadwick
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1921
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This light comedy was based on the George Ade play, and Ade in turn seems to have been inspired by It Pays to Advertise,...
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1921
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This video double feature consists of early silent short subjects starring those two old Ziegfeld Follies colleagues,...
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1921
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Based on a serialized novel by Courtney Riley Cooper, Christmas Eve at Pilot Butte, this sentimental silent Western was one...
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1921
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The crusty Russell Simpson and villainous James Mason portray a particularly evil father and son team in this intense sea...
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1921
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Peep O'Day (Will Rogers) is the illiterate pauper of a small Southern town. When he gets the news from Judge Priest...
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Lucy
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1921
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Mme. Maureveau
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1921
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Because he was unable to give voice to his earthy wit, Will Rogers' on-film appeal was a bit limited during the silent era....
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The Girl
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1921
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Stop Thief was adapted from the popular Broadway comedy of the same name, with Mary Ryan repeating her original stage role....
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1920
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Dauntless Dustin Farnum stars in the rugged western Man in the Open. A retired sailor, Farnum heads to the wide open spaces,...
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1919
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The first of Cecil B. DeMille's series of sophisticated romantic comedy-dramas, Old Wives for New was adapted from a novel by...
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1918
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