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1948
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When he was first offered the film version of the best-selling Frederick Wakeman novel The Hucksters, Clark Gable turned it...
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1947
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In this war movie, set during WW II, a pilot must crash land in the Pacific after he is shot down. As he floats upon the...
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1947
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This lavish, 145-minute cinemadaptation of the Pearl Buck best-seller Dragon Seed was intended by MGM as a followup to the...
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1944
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Jean-Pierre Aumont (billed simply as Pierre Aumont) makes his American film debut in Assignment in Brittany. Set during WW2,...
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1943
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An innocent man is put on trial, but is he really as innocent as he claims? Diplomat David Talbot (William Powell) and his...
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1942
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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1941
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film...
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1940
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Clark Gable is "Big John" and Spencer Tracy is "Square John"; both "Johns" seek their fortunes in the Texas oil fields. They...
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1940
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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1939
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It's "Never the Twain Shall Meet" time again in the MGM romantic melodrama Lady of the Tropics. The lady in question is...
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1939
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1938
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A Yank at Oxford was filmed in England at MGM's "sister studio", Elstree. Robert Taylor plays Lee Sheridan, an arrogant young...
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1938
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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1937
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1937
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1936
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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In this western, a cowpoke from Wyoming rides into the big city to look for a wife. Instead he finds himself investigating...
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1935
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A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Hell Below transcends its hackneyed World War I plot to emerge as a drama of rare originality and gutsiness. Walter Huston...
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1933
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J. Phineas Stevens (Lee Tracy) is a personal injury lawyer whose practice has become a nightmare to any number of defendants,...
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1933
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1933
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1932
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Jack Conway complained about being assigned to direct this comedy, claiming that a woman like the title character had almost...
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1932
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1932
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Though silent-screen favorite William Haines wasn't able to sustain his popularity into the talkie era, he insisted upon...
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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 remake of the 1925 Lon Chaney melodrama of the same name, 1930's The Unholy Three makes several concessions to the newly...
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1930
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Based loosely on Waite Hoyt and Mickey Cochrane, major league baseball players moonlighting as vaudeville entertainers, this...
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1930
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1930
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Untamed was touted by MGM as Joan Crawford's talking-picture debut, even though she'd already been heard as well as seen in...
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1929
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1929
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Lon Chaney Sr. eschews his trademarked makeup in the MGM crime melodrama While the City Sleeps. The plot is sparked by the...
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1928
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After holding out for several months, MGM decided to take the talking-picture plunge with Alias Jimmy Valentine. Actually,...
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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The second of Thomas Meighan's three 1927 vehicles, We're All Gamblers was also the first of two collaborations between...
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1927
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Although the silent W.C. Fields vehicle Two Flaming Youths no longer exists, a surviving script (titled Side Show) offers a...
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1927
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Steelworker Dundee Reilly (Richard Dix) comes to the defense of Mary Malone (Mary Brian), who is being annoyed by a brawny...
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1927
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1927
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John Gilbert was one of MGM's top stars when he appeared this melodrama. Playing against his usual matinee idol type, Gilbert...
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1927
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1927
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A nightclub dancer is torn between two men -- a tough detective and an unscrupulous gangster -- in this rather lurid silent...
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1927
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Young Paramount stars Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd, the latter a recent graduate of the studio's acting school, starred in...
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1927
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Amateur thespians Fannie (Lois Wilson) and Johnny (Sam Hardy) team up to form a vaudeville act. Along the way, they decide to...
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1927
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While the mid-1920s were deluged with films about college life, and Brown of Harvard is probably the ultimate silent film in...
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1926
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1926
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Based on a 1911 novel by Elinor Glyn, this melodrama seems at first to focus on the dilemma of whether to marry for material...
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1925
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This is yet another costume drama written and supervised by the eccentric Elinor Glyn, who was a Hollywood tastemaker during...
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1925
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1924
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Tom Mix always had a love for comedy -- if not always the wherewithal -- and The Heart Buster must have disappointed the...
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1924
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It seems like nearly everything written by George Barr McCutcheon found its way to the silent screen. Castle Craneycrow was...
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1923
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With a screenplay by Howard Hawks and direction by Jack Conway, this Mexican border tale couldn't possibly have been anything...
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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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1923
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This routine circus drama was a typical rags-to-riches vehicle for minor Universal Studios star Gladys Walton. Nita Moore...
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1923
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In this domestic drama from Universal, Claire Howard (Ethel Grey Terry) is a neglected wife whose husband, Austin (Vernon...
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1923
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This implausible melodrama is based on the play by William Hurlburt. Although Cordelia Ebbing (Kathlyn Williams) leaves her...
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1923
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1923
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Pleasant-looking British-born Herbert Rawlinson starred in this silent comedy-drama as look-alike cousins Stuart Granger and...
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1922
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Manly Universal star Frank Mayo stars in this tale of the Northwest. Gilead, a lumber town, is divided into two halves: on...
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1922
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1922
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One of the silent screen's prettiest ingenues, Marjorie Daw, plays both mother and daughter in this romantic western directed...
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1922
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Universal star Herbert Rawlinson has the lead in this rather unusual romantic crime drama. James Harrington Court (Rawlinson)...
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1922
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Eddie Hayes (Joe Bennett) is the son of police inspector Hayes (Charles Arling), but that doesn't stop him from becoming...
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1921
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Based on The White Peacock Feathers by Du Vernet Rabell, this minor melodrama from the assembly line at Universal starred...
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1921
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After spending quite a long while as a leading man, Herbert Rawlinson was upped to star status by Universal. Jack Norman...
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1921
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Having nothing to do with the later Greta Garbo vehicle, the 1921 The Kiss was a sentimental melodrama set in Old California....
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1921
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Cinema veteran Benjamin B. Hampton produced this fanciful silent western starring his wife Claire Adams as a girl forced to...
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1921
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While the producers bragged that this silent melodrama featured "many Orientals" in its cast, the story line is definitely...
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1921
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Manson, a servant (Jean Hersholt), comes to work for a curate, William Smythe (Edward Piel). The curate has spent his life...
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1920
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Veteran producer Benjamin B. Hampton had an affinity for filming the works of pulp writer Zane Grey. Grey's The Desert of...
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1920
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Claude Ditmar (Robert McKim) manages a mill and is your classic power-mad cinematic villain. He lusts after his secretary,...
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1920
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Tito Lombardi (Bert Lytell) is a fashion designer who has managed to make a success of himself even though he's all-too...
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1919
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Marion Gregory (Alma Rubens) is not happy with her life as the wife of a struggling inventor (Jack Conway). When Dr. Calvert...
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1919
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The ever-ascending star of Gloria Swanson received another boost with the Triangle feature Her Decision. Swanson plays...
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1918
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When homesteader Donald McLane (Al Whitman) marries Julia Wharton (Leota Lorraine), he incurs the jealous wrath of Rufe...
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1918
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1918
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1918
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Velma Gay (Alice Lake) gets engaged to Buck Linsay (Roy Stewart), a rich Westerner, even though she loves someone else. Buck...
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1917
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Nora Martin (Ella Hall) and her widowed mother (Mrs. Maie Hall) live in the slums. The struggle to make ends meet becomes too...
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1917
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1917
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Three bachelor buddies, David Clark (Jack Conway), Dick Porter (Richard LeReno), and Jerry Mathers (George Webb) adopt three...
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1917
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The young, redheaded Polly (Ella Hall) spends her days keeping house for a pair of London lawyers (George Webb and...
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1917
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Chattfield Bruce (J. Warren Kerrigan) is in China working for an American importer. There is a famine there and a pirate...
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1916
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Lawrence Ashmore (Ben Wilson) has fallen on hard times but he bounces back quickly when he becomes a reporter and is assigned...
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1916
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The Beckoning Trail was one of several joint vehicles for veteran action hero J. Warren Kerrigan and up-and-coming ingenue...
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1916
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Divinity student John Fairmeadow (J. Warren Kerrigan) likes his liquor and as a result is expelled from the seminary. He...
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1916
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Based on a controversial novel by Robert Ellis Wales, The Penitentes was inspired by a real-life religious cult which thrived...
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1915
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Although Dot Farley was better known as a comedienne, this three-reeler -- which she both wrote and starred in -- was a...
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1914
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1913
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1909
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