The Search for Bridey Murphy was inspired by the purportedly true story of a Colorado housewife named Virginia Tighe, who...
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1956
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Stunt man Hugh Hooker starred in the title role of this late Grade-Z Western, written and directed by the redoubtable...
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1954
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1954
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Director John Ford, notoriously difficult to please, regarded The Sun Shines Bright as his favorite film. Laurence...
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1953
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All suspense in The Woman They Almost Lynched would seem to be dissipated by title, but director Allan Dwan holds the viewers...
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1953
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1953
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Winning of the West was Gene Autry's first western vehicle for 1953. It was also one of Autry's better offerings, with the...
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1953
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The life of Stephen Foster, one of America's greatest and best-loved songwriters of the 19th century, sets the stage for this...
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1952
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Rancher Randolph Scott rides right into a romantic triangle in this moody western. He is forced to stand by as his mercenary...
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1951
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1951
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1950
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Rod Cameron and Wayne Morris star as Civil War officers who become federal agents. The duo is sent west to investigate a...
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1950
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Intruder in the Dust is one of the best of Hollywood's postwar "racial tolerance" cycle--a cycle that would come to an abrupt...
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1949
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The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the...
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1949
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Randolph Scott both co-produced and starred in this above average Western chronicling the career of one of the last of the...
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1949
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1948
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All cruel jokes aside, actor Sonny Tufts did on occasion deliver something resembling a good screen performance. In the...
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1948
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Allan Dwan directs the family-oriented drama Driftwood, starring nine-year-old Natalie Wood. Orphan Jenny Hollingsworth...
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1947
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Olivia De Havilland hadn't wanted to star in RKO's Government Girl, but was forced to do so by her home studio Warner Bros....
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1943
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1943
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Detective Chester Morris and his nosy wife Jean Parker set up housekeeping in a small Reno hotel room, whence Morris conducts...
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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In this romance, a handsome heir finds he cannot receive his due fortune unless he is married so he makes a deal with a...
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Philip Marlowe
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1934
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Graham
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1932
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This crime drama chronicles the relationship between a jewel thief who has gone straight and his estranged son who is...
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1932
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1932
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In this romance, a homely country girl makes herself over into a gorgeous New York Fashion model. Suddenly men flock to her...
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1932
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The moral of this drama could very well be for people to exercise caution with what they wish for as they just might get it....
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Roger Norton
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1932
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Warner Oland's third appearance as humble oriental sleuth Charlie Chan was in the 1932 release Charlie Chan's Chance. This...
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1932
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My Pal the King may not be the best of Tom Mix's talkie westerns, but it is the one that comes closest to the spirit of his...
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1932
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Pa Shelby
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1931
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In this drama, a wild young punk is assigned to spend time with a man who specializes in helping juvenile delinquents. The...
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John Gibson
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1931
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In this western, a wealthy eastern returns from a polo match to find that his father has been murdered. Later, he is...
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William Drew
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1931
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This third film version of Rex Beach's rugged Yukon novel The Spoilers was also the first talkie adaptation. This time,...
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1930
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In this melodrama, a young man loses his sight during a plane crash and swears to get revenge upon the man whose company...
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1930
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Nancy Carroll brings a touch of freshness to the well-worn plot convolutions of Devil's Holiday. Ms. Carroll plays a...
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Mark Stone
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1930
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In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes...
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Baron Serge Palma
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1929
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Produced in Hollywood by Herbert Wilcox, who had been unable to obtain sound equipment in London, this "haunted house"...
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Tiger Larabee
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1929
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In this musical comedy, an egotistical ex-college football star had little time for a plain-jane coed while he was in...
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Professor
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1929
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Mr. Kenricks
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1928
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George Marion Sr. plays a carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a...
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1926
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Ninety percent of the silent films of director Edward H. Sloman have been lost to the ages, and Butterflies in the Rain is no...
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1926
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Col. Fleming
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1926
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Actress Hope Hampton plays a New England girl who heads to the titular island, yearning for romance. After nearly falling for...
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Jack Avery
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1925
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Calvin Clarke/Deputy District Attorney
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1925
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Veteran matinee-idol James Kirkwood starred in this low-budget melodrama from poverty row organization Gotham Productions as...
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Officer Jim Ryan
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1925
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This romantic drama was based on the novel by Ethel M. Dell, a very popular author of the day. Her work doesn't seem to...
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Burk Ranger,Guy Ranger
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1925
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This muddled murder mystery-comedy was based on the Max Marcin stage play The Night Cap. Bank president Robert Andrews...
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Robert Andrews
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1925
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1924
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Dr. Wesley Van Martyn
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1924
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John Brand
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1924
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The off-screen husband-and-wife team of James Kirkwood and Lila Lee played just that in this silent crook melodrama from...
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Jim Reagan
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1924
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Richard Whitney
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1924
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George Moreland
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1924
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Michael Fraser
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1924
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1924
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Early silent screen matinee idol James Kirkwood starred in this romantic Western, which also offered a good role for veteran...
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John Trent
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1923
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Actor James Kirkwood, who had taken a break from film for a stint on Broadway in The Fool, stands out in this drama. His...
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Stephen Martin
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1923
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Dorothy Davenport billed herself by her private name, Mrs. Wallace Reid, for this melodrama about drug addiction. She was...
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Alan MacFarland
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1923
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This romantic adventure was based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. An old skipper, Captain Davis (George Fawcett), has...
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Robert Herrick
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1922
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This melodrama, based on the novel Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Cynthia Stockley, wasted the talents of James Kirkwood,...
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John Quelch
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1922
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The Booth Tarkington-Harry Leon Wilson play was filmed once previously, in 1914, by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel. For the...
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Daniel Forbes Pike
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1922
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Director Marshall Neilan brought his cast and crew to Montana for this extravagant re-telling of the famous last stand at...
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Bob Hampton
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1921
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Paramount was taking a chance by making this picture -- based on a novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim -- almost two years after...
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Leopold Von Ragastein,Sir Everard Dominey
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1921
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This pretentious picture, clocking in at over an hour and a half -- quite a long running time for the silent era -- was...
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David Courtney
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1921
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This confusing melodrama finds Jean Jacques Barbille (James Kirkwood) as the wealthy young man from a small town in Quebec....
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Jean Jacques Barbille
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1921
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Much of this Allan Dwan-directed drama was distasteful to silent movie-era audiences. In this more religious time, no one...
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1920
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Domestic issues take center stage in this sensationalistic Western directed by Reginald Barker for Goldwyn. A young woman...
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1920
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Jack Pickford got his own production company when his sister Mary signed a huge contract with First National, and this was...
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1919
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1919
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The Spencers are living the high life in New York -- Jack (David Powell) is a force on Wall Street, and Eileen (Catherine...
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1918
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This morality play about the plight of the "fallen woman" (a favorite theme in the 1910s) was based on the play by E. Lloyd...
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1918
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1918
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Fox signed Evelyn Nesbit purely for sensational value. Even at this late date, she was still notorious as the cause for what...
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1918
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1917
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Even though she was not yet 15, Mary Miles Minter found herself typecast and playing the same kind of sweet, Pollyanna-like...
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1917
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Mary Miles Minter -- a seasoned and worldly young actress even at the age of 14 -- plays an impossibly naïve teenager in this...
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1917
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1917
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Bertie (John Barrymore) is a bashful young man, and his sweetheart is just barely able to squeeze a marriage proposal out of...
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1916
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Henry Arthur Jones' stage play The Masqueraders was retooled to accommodate the talents of Hazel Dawn in this five-reel...
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1915
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Combining the star appeal of Mary Pickford with this fairy tale seemed like a sure thing to Famous Players-Paramount....
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1915
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1915
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The relationship between a plucky daughter and her brutish father is dissected in this classic Mary Pickford drama set in a...
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1915
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Having played a modern actress in Behind the Scenes (1914), Mary Pickford took on the legendary 17th Century Nell Gwynn, the...
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Director
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1915
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Mary Pickford essays the title character in Esmeralda. She plays a country lass who leaves her home after valuable gold ore...
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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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1915
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1915
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Marrable (John Mason) is a robber who wants to change his ways, but his cronies want him to do one last job. Unfortunately,...
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1915
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The Mutual four-reeler The Floor Above was based on a novel by the indefatigable E. Phillips Oppenheim. In one of her first...
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1914
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1914
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Based on a popular stage play, the Biograph three-reeler Strongheart was originally released in May of 1913. The film was...
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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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1914
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1914
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Forced by the dictates of his Biograph contract to give up directing in favor of "supervising," D.W. Griffith left the studio...
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1914
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This Reliance four-reeler starred Dorothy Gish as the title character, a rambunctious frontier dance-hall gal named Nell....
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1914
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1911
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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 990-foot Biograph "temperance melodrama" was filmed in late November of 1909. Charles Craig plays the leading character,...
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1910
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1910
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Like most of the director's Biograph Civil War dramas, D.W. Griffith's The Honor of His Family can be regarded today as...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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This Biograph gambling melodrama was completed by D.W. Griffith in a fast two days. The hero, a chronic gambler, embezzles...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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Described by the Biograph publicity department as a "circus romance," D.W. Griffith's The Call was partially filmed on...
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1910
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1909
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Biograph's The Convict's Sacrifice was lensed by D. W. Griffith on location at Fort Lee, New Jersey. Released from prison, a...
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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D.W. Griffith's Indian Runner's Romance represented one of the director's first forays to Biograph's facilities in...
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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This 974-foot Biograph subject was designated by the studio as a "Contemporary Melodrama." The main character, a young...
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1909
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D.W. Griffith's Renunciation is a comedy western, filmed in the wilds of Shadyside, New Jersey. Fascinated by a pair of...
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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