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1928
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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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Jim Doolittle
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1926
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Exit Smiling is perhaps the only film that ever fully utilized the comic genius of the incomparable Beatrice Lillie. The star...
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Jimmy Marsh
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1926
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Long believed lost, the silent thriller-chiller The Bat finally resurfaced in the mid-1970s and proved well-worth the wait....
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1926
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Jack Joyce
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1925
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Alla Nazimova, an ethereal Russian actress who preferred to bill herself as just plain Nazimova, tops the cast of My Son. The...
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Tony, Her Son
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1925
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The Goose Woman was inspired by the notorious Hall-Mills murder case, wherein a woman known as the "Pig Woman" was wheeled...
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Gerald Holmes
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1925
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Jack Pickford made a strong showing in this romantic drama, adapted from the novel by W.B.M. Ferguson. Two schemers, Crimmins...
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Producer, Billy Garrison
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1923
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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Mary Pickford was at the height of her fame as "America's Sweetheart" when she took on the challenge of playing two roles --...
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1921
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For her fourth United Artists picture, Mary Pickford once again plays a poor little rich girl. This one, Jeanne, is so...
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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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Ed Swinger
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1921
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Mark Bullway (Lionel Belmore) is frustrated with his lazy son, Harry (Jack Pickford), who is looking for nothing more than a...
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1920
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Tom Sawyer
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1918
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This version of the Mark Twain novel contains its more homespun situations -- the whitewashing episode, Tom's courtship of...
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Tom Sawyer
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1917
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This 1917 filmization of Dickens' Great Expectations manages to pack quite a lot of the complex storyline into a brisk five...
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1917
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Mary Pickford's brother Jack starred in this silent oater as a boxer who runs West after killing an opponent in the ring. He...
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1917
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The commanding officer of the title is played by Donald Crisp. When he inherits two children from his late sister, Crisp is...
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1915
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Practically the whole Pickford clan showed up in Fanchon the Cricket. Mary Pickford plays the granddaughter of a woman...
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1915
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Set in Spain, Pretty Sister of Jose was based on a story by Frances Hodgson Burnett, an author better known for such...
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1915
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This typical silent rags-to-riches comedy-drama featured Mary Pickford and her real-life brother Jack as sibling orphans...
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1915
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1914
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Mary Pickford's stardom was still very much on the ascendant when she made this film for Famous Players. The Mornes are...
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1914
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The sprightly Marguerite Clark stars in this light romantic drama. Letty Roberts (Clark) is a naive little country girl who...
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1914
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1914
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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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1912
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A wagon train is attacked by marauding Indians in this typically grisly Biograph one-reel western melodrama preserved in the...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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Nine-year-old Nedda (Madge Evans) is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to the reign...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1910
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The Biograph melodrama Two Little Waifs was partially filmed on location in Greenwich, Connecticut. Placed in an orphanage,...
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1910
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1910
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The outskirts of Paterson, New Jersey proved an interesting substitute for 18th-century Paris in Biograph's French Revolution...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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This Biograph "temperance melodrama" was filmed at the company's Bronx Studios, with location work completed in...
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1910
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