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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Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title...
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1931
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In this crime drama, a moll tells her imprisoned gangster lover that she is leaving him for another whom she really loves....
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Bob Henderson
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1931
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Sporting Chance is a prime example of how once-prominent silent screen personalities ended up grasping at straws on Poverty...
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1931
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George Morris
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1931
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In this drama, the owner of a railroad gives his lazy son the boot. The young fellow, wanting to redeem himself, uses an...
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1931
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Based on the stage play Mother's Millions, She-Wolf is one of several 1930s films inspired by the life of the reclusive...
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David Talbot
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1931
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1931
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In this drama, the children of a recently deceased firefighter are sent to an orphanage. Two other firefighters offered to...
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Dan
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1930
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Maybe It's Love is one of the many college football musicals which bred like minks in the early talkie era. A very young...
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Tommy Nelson
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1930
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Having long enjoyed a near-legendary status because of its general unavailability, Dangerous Nan McGrew inevitably...
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Bob Dawes
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1930
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Wally Wendell
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1930
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No one was surprised in 1929 that aviation mogul Howard R. Hughes would produce a paean to World War I flying aces like...
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Roy Rutledge
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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This is the first sound film of Vilma "the Hungarian Rhapsody" Banky, a popular romantic star from the silent era. She plays...
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James Stackpoole
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1929
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This early talkie is the film that destroyed the career of popular silent leading lady Louise Brooks. A detective story, it...
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Jimmy Spotswoode
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1929
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Clara Bow and her sister Jean Arthur are wisecracking department store employees with ever-roaming eyes for eligible...
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Bill
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1929
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When silent star Colleen Moore nervously faced a microphone for her first "sound" test, the results were so positive that...
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Rory O'More
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1929
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A lesser-known effort from director Josef Von Sternberg, The Case of Lena Smith has been unfairly chastised for all the wrong...
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Franz Hofrat
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1929
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Jim Donahue
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1928
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Eddie Briggs
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1928
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In this low-budget romantic comedy, a beautiful model from Paris sets her sights on the heart of an American ex-lover and so...
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Bob Adams
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1928
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Long though lost, Four Sons reemerged in the 1960s, proving anew that the silent films of director John Ford were every bit...
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Joseph Bernle
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1928
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One of the most frustrating items in the list of missing Bebe Daniels comedies, Senorita certainly sounds fascinating. When...
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Roger Oliveras
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1927
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Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's...
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Jim Treadway
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1927
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The "silk legs" of the title belong to star Madge Bellamy, and a fine pair of extremities they are indeed. The story focuses...
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Phil Barker
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1927
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Hoping to change the winsome "Cinderella" image of actress Betty Bronson, Ritzy. Despite her name, Ritzy Brown (Bronson) is...
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Harrington Smith
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1927
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Love's Greatest Mistake was based on the serialized Liberty Magazine story of the same name. It all begins when Honey McNeill...
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Harvey Gibbs
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1927
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Lieutenant Paul Almasy
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1927
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Though she hadn't been a Hal Roach "bathing beauty" for nearly ten years, Bebe Daniels still cut quite a svelte figure in...
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Jerry Marvin
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1927
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Though well into her twenties, Bebe Daniels effectively passes as a teenager in The Campus Flirt. Daniels plays the...
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Denis Adams
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1926
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Rober Van Wye
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1926
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Unlike later films bearing the same title, 1916's The Ransom was not a kidnap drama. Adapted from Eve Unsell's play The...
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1916
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