Amidst the furor of the Civil War a courageous Union captain, nursing a broken heart, volunteers for spy duty. Masquerading...
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Vance Calhoun
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1930
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In this lively drama, a gambler believes he has killed a man and so boards the first train out of town. Unfortunately, a...
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Rev. Powell
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1930
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In this comedy, a middle-class stenographer marries her wealthy boss. Her family is intimidated by his status and when the...
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Mr. Thayer
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1929
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Lois Moran stars as Joan Robinson, the chorus-girl daughter of blue-collar workers Ma and Pa Robinson (Edythe Chapman and...
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Pa Robinson
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1928
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1928
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James
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1927
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When Ellen Linden (Alice Terry) returns from finishing school, she discovers that her father has lost his fortune. Although...
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1925
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The wild behavior of Kenneth Jamieson (George O'Brien) has finally gone too far and his millionaire father (George Fawcett)...
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1925
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Silent film leading lady Priscilla Dean's best years were behind her when she made Crimson Runner. Still, her ability to...
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Baron Rudolph
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1925
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This warm comedy, based on the play by Frank Craven, was typical of William C. deMille's directing work. Thomas Bates Sr....
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1925
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1924
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The second filming of Bret Harte's Salomy Jane's Kiss was given a sumptuous production by Paramount. This time around, the...
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1923
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The handsome but uninspired Lloyd Hughes plays a young Cajun man in this drama produced by Thomas Ince. Jeff Newland...
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1923
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The normally low-key William C. deMille veers into the territory of his younger brother, Cecil B. DeMille, with this highly...
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1923
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Universal showed off their impressive back lot in this comedy-western starring Hoot Gibson as a cowboy turned movie...
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Sheik Ussan
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1923
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Jack Holt stands out in this adaptation of the William LeBaron stage hit. A pair of con artists have published a book under...
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1923
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Betty Austin (Katherine MacDonald) has dreams of going to the city and pursuing a career, but she gives it all up to marry...
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Uncle Billy Austin
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1923
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Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45...
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1923
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As a young director, King Vidor certainly wasn't adverse to taking chances -- this picture, based on Katherine Hill's novel,...
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John Latham
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1922
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Because the drab Under the Lash failed at the box office, Paramount was more than happy to put their star, Gloria Swanson,...
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1922
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1922
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This lighthearted political satire marked the first time humorist George Ade wrote a story directly for the screen. The...
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1922
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Even with its share of sumptuous sets and domestic mixups, this comedy-drama was not typical for director Cecil B. DeMille....
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1922
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When she starred in this drama, Helene Chadwick was being referred to as "the most photographed girl in America." Phoebe...
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Mr. Mabee
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1921
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When Blanche Warren (Irene Rich) finds out that her sister, Adele (Ora Carew), is about to marry the notorious Hugh Sainsbury...
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1921
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This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a story in Popular Magazine...
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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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Like many another Constance Talmadge vehicle, Romance and Arabella was based on a popular stage play, this one written by...
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1919
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1919
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The plot of Less Than Kin hinges upon the astonishing resemblance between its two protagonists (both of whom, for the sake of...
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1918
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The Whispering Chorus was arguably the closest Cecil B. DeMille ever came to making an "art" picture. Stalwart DeMille...
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1918
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Abstaining from his usual "Italian" characterization, George Beban played a roistering French Canadian in Paramount's Jules...
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1918
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1918
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Walsingham Van Dorn (Wallace Reid) has a fancy name but no money until he inherits 40 million dollars from a pair of wealthy,...
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1918
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We Can't Have Everything was at once a typical Cecil B. DeMille marital comedy and also a satire of the whole genre. Aware...
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1918
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Richard Landry (C.H. Geldert) is a Southern aristocrat who works for the U.S. government in the days before the Civil War....
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1917
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1917
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This typically overbaked Cecil B. DeMille opus takes place off the seacoast of Brittany. While ambling along the beach,...
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1917
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Though many of Cecil B. DeMille's earliest films were based on plays and novels, The Dream Girl was a complete original,...
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1916
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A sweeping chronicle of the life and death of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orlean, this epic stands as one of director...
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1916
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One of the few opera divas to achieve success on the silent screen (due in part to her affable, non-diva temperament),...
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1916
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Although this classic Charles Dickens tale was filmed at least twice previously, this Lasky version was the first to really...
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1916
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The first of several screen versions of Bret Harte's venerable action yarn Tennessee's Pardner was delivered to the...
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1916
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A typical fanciful silent screen romance based on a bodice-ripping pulp novel, To Have and to Hold marked the screen debut of...
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1916
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Hero Tom Wells (Wallace Reid) is dissatisfied with his lot in life. Wondering aloud whether he'd be happier if things were...
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1916
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It was probably pretty simple for William C. DeMille to adapt this comedy stage hit to the screen -- he and his brother,...
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1915
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While critiquing this fairy tale-like romance, Motion Picture News noted the "youthful personality and girlish portrayal" of...
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1915
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1915
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1915 was a big year for civil war films -- this powerful five-reeler was released around the same time as D.W. Griffith's...
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1915
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1915
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1914
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1914
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Produced at the famous Lasky barn near Hollywood and Vine, Where the Trail Divides was a sober depiction of the relationship...
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Director
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1914
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Henry Arthur Jones' popular stage drama The Lie was brought to the screen as a vehicle for Elsie Ferguson. The star plays...
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1914
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While most of Vitagraph's biographical films were released as multiple-parters, Richelieu told its entire story within the...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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Producer Jesse Lasky and stage impresario David Belasco teamed up for several films in the mid-teens and this tale of...
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1914
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1913
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