The film traces Naples-born Caruso's ascension from adolescent choir singer to the uppermost ranks of the opera world. Caruso...
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1951
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Casting Frank Sinatra as a Pennsylvania priest is but one of the many miscalculations made by the producers of Miracle of the...
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1948
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Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon...
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1946
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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1944
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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1941
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The "suspense" in the RKO Radio musical comedy Music for Madame lies in whether or not golden-voiced Operatic tenor...
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1937
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In this musical, a nightclub singer (Lily Pons) secretly aspires to sing at the Met. To help her, her agent (Jack Oakie)...
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1937
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The Gay Desperado is a 1936 musical lampooning the then-popular gangster pictures. Leo Carrillo plays a genial Mexican...
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1936
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A remake of the French comedy Monsieur Sans-Gene, One Rainy Afternoon gets under way when film-actor Phillippe Martin...
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1936
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One of the last Fox releases before the studio's merger with 20th Century, Redheads on Parade stars John Boles and Dixie Lee...
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1935
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In this drama, an impoverished dreamer saves a group of people during a terrible storm by leading them to shelter in a ghost...
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1935
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1935
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Francis Lederer stars as the prince of a mythical European kingdom. To mingle with the "common folk" while on a visit to New...
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1935
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This drama, an adaptation of a novel by A.J. Cronin, chronicles the exploits of an alcoholic doctor whose career is in...
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1934
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International musical-comedy favorite Lillian Harvey is as delightful as ever in the bizarre romantic tunefest I Am Suzanne....
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1934
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In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young...
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1934
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1934
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Dedicated to "the memory of Florence Nightingale," White Parade might have been better dedicated to the cliche experts at Fox...
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1934
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In this romantic comedy, a rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him...
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1934
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In this racy (for 1933) satire set in 800 BC, an overbearing band of Amazon women rule their men with an iron fist. They live...
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1933
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In this romantic comedy, an American art student goes abroad to study and gets a reputation when she marries a wealthy...
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1933
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1933
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A beautiful orphan girl, faced with the prospect of being forced to work as an indentured servant (more like a slave) until...
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1933
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Adapted from John Balderston's successful stage fantasy (itself based on a story by Henry James), Berkeley Square is the...
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1933
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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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Stage director Rouben Mamoulian jolted the (at the time) moribund sound-film industry with innovative sound experiments and...
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1929
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In this drama, a junkman, Maurice Chevalier in his American film debut, rescues a drowning boy from the Seine. The boy's...
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1929
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"Doomsday" is the name of a valuable patch of British farm property owned by self-made millionaire Percival Fream...
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1928
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1928
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Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton team up again in this silent comedy, in which they (respectively) play Mike Doolan, a...
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1928
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1928
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Josef vonSternberg's The Last Command was inspired by the true story of General Lodijenski, a Russian aristocrat who arrived...
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1928
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1928
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This silent romantic adventure is set in the Sahara desert, and purports to be a sequel to the successful Beau Geste. Like...
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1928
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Director William Wellman's follow-up to Wings was based in part on his own WWI experiences with the Lafayette Flying Corps....
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1928
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Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with...
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1928
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Filmed on location in Manhattan, the 1927 silent New York explores themes later developed more fully in such films as...
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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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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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1927
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1927
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Kitty Flanders (Yvonne Pelletier), Jean Waddington and Ted Larrabee (Don Marion) are all "children of divorce" -- the two...
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1927
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After a lengthy apprenticeship in bits and secondary roles, Gary Cooper was promoted to stardom in the Zane Grey western...
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1927
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No relation to the earlier John Ford western of the same name, The Last Outlaw was a vehicle for Paramount's up-and-coming...
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1927
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A follow-up to the enormously successful Behind the Front, We're in the Navy Now reteams the stars of the earlier film,...
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1927
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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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1927
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Contrary to popular belief, Clara Bow was already Paramount's biggest box-office draw when she starred in this delightful...
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1927
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Dapper "polite" comedian Raymond Griffith starred in this so-so vehicle. Griffith is cast as French Alfred Sava-Goiu, who,...
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1927
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Originally titled 10 Modern Commandments, this sophisticated romantic comedy-drama was the third directorial effort by...
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1927
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The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman....
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1927
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1927
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1926
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Gilda Gray, best-known for inventing the shimmy, shows off her talents as a Hawaiian dancer in this South Seas drama, based...
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1926
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W.C. Fields' It's the Old Army Game is an expansion on four Fields stage skits, originally performed in the Broadway revue...
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1926
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1926
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Volcano takes forever to get to the climactic eruption. In the meantime, the audience is subjected to the travails of...
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1926
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Ronald Colman plays the title role in the first of several screen adaptations of Christopher Wren's tale of adventure in the...
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1926
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Based on a novel by Francis Brett Young, Sea Horses stars Florence Vidor as Helen Salvia, who is deserted early on by her...
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1926
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Raymond Griffith's famed nonchalance adds to the humor of this delightful mystery-comedy. During a posh party on a houseboat,...
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1926
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1926
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Like most Westerns of the era, this Jack Holt vehicle from Paramount includes automobiles and even airplanes. But Holt went...
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1926
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1926
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Richard Dix and Esther Ralston starred together in several films during the latter half of the 1920s. This Western-comedy was...
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1925
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Thomas Meighan in a dual role, as well as the Irish locations -- including the Blarney Stone -- add interest to what would...
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1925
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1925
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The Paramount backlot doubled as Basque country for this romantic comedy which proved to be a nice showcase for Richard Dix....
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1925
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Bebe Daniels stars in this action-packed comedy -- one of Edward Sutherland's first directoral efforts. Susan Van Dusen...
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1925
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By using a borrowed medal, Russ Kane, a crook (Warner Baxter), is able to get a job as an air mail pilot. His plan is to...
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1925
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While his reputation has faded next to stronger talents such as Cecil B. DeMille, Erich Von Stroheim, and King Vidor, James...
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1925
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Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford (Thomas Meighan) marries Alice Rand (Lila Lee), the daughter of his boss, John...
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1925
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According to the Paramount publicity mill, Joseph Hergesheimer wrote this unoriginal tale of California's early days...
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1925
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Frederick Lonsdale's witty 1924 play Aren't We All was turned into a vehicle for the debonair Adolphe Menjou by Paramount...
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1925
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1925
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1925
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1925
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Will Prescott (Richard Dix) is a bank cashier whose assistant, Ned Seabury (Neil Hamilton), has made a killing in the stock...
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1925
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The ambitious and beautiful Sonya Mendel (Jetta Goudal) works her way up from the ghetto and lands a job as a reporter for a...
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1925
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This Cape Cod melodrama was based on a novel by Joseph C. Lincoln. Calvin Homer (Warner Baxter) expects to be promoted to...
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1925
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After a few films that did not showcase her talent well, Bebe Daniels was able to redeem herself in this comedy based on the...
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1925
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Zane Grey's 1925 story of the great Buffalo hunts became a sprawling silent Western produced by Paramount and starring the...
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1925
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This colorful drama of the Bowery of the 1890s was directed by Herbert Brenon. Diamond Mike (Riley Hatch) runs a Bowery...
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1925
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The Paramount team of Richard Dix and Lois Wilson starred in this top-notch silent western in which a Native American is the...
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1925
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Veteran Western director William K. Howard does a solid job with this routine Zane Grey story. Jack Holt, Billie Dove, and...
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1925
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When Billy Laidlaw (Kenneth Harlan) sees Peggy Laurence (Bebe Daniels) and her partner, Matt Wilde (T. Roy Barnes),...
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1925
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Maria Maretti (Bebe Daniels) works as a manicurist at a posh hotel. She is in love with Tony Luca (Edmund Burns), and they...
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1925
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Adventure was an appropriate title for a book by Jack London, and when his tale of the South Seas was made into a film, the...
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1925
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1925
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1924
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Glamorous Gloria Swanson dressed down for this story of a little Parisian thief. Toinette (Swanson) is the leader of a band...
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1924
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1924
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When kindly saloon keeper Tim O'Day (Ben Hendricks) is killed by a thug, his wife (Louise Dresser) takes over the business....
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1924
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Tully Marshall plays "the Stranger," an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering...
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1924
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Leatrice Joy has a dual role, as Gwynne Evans, a restless young wife who longs to go on the stage, and as lookalike actress...
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1924
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1924
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1924
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American engineer Robert Maury (Conway Tearle) travels to Paris with his wife, Elsie (Dorothy Mackaill). He leaves her there...
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1924
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After her brilliant career in Europe, Pola Negri, came to America to make films for Paramount. Her first few pictures for the...
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1924
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When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter...
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1924
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1924
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The story to this sea melodrama was written by Byron Morgan. Morgan was best known for the fast-paced auto tales he wrote for...
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1924
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Mary Pickford starred in the 1915 version of this film, based on the Frances Hodgson Burnett story, and it's easy to imagine...
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1924
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1924
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It seems like the flashier Cecil B. DeMille made his films, the more intimate were those made by his older brother William C....
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1924
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This South Seas tale, based on the novel by Clive Arden, very much reflects the morals of its era. Barbara Stockley...
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1924
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Before he became a producer at MGM, Paul Bern showed a flair for directing, adding a sophisticated touch to this...
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1924
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Irene Short (Agnes Ayers) tries to help her husband Donald (Edward Burns) further his career in architecture by running...
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1924
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This society comedy-drama was given witty direction by Allan Dwan, and was based on The Laughing Lady by respected playwright...
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1924
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1924
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Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made this film, and while it isn't one of her best -- a Graustarkian...
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1924
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It seems like every word Zane Grey ever put to paper eventually wound up on screen during the silent days. Although there's a...
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1924
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This Paramount drama was based on the novel Face, by Lucy Stone Terrill. It was a change of pace for light comedienne...
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1924
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There is a dispute over the ownership of some valuable Long Island farmland -- the Clarks and the Sullivans both claim it. It...
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1924
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Gloria Swanson is My American Wife in this farfetched but entertaining romantic drama. Married to Argentinian horse rancher...
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1923
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Although rotund Walter Hiers was frequently seen in motion pictures all throughout the silent era, he was generally playing a...
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1923
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1923
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This romantic drama gave filmgoers everything they expected from a Gloria Swanson picture -- fancy settings, gorgeous...
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1923
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The tale centers around Dick Heldar (Percy Marmont), an aspiring artist. Although he is devoted to his childhood sweetheart,...
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1923
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Jazz babies and gents danced and partied their way through dozens upon dozens of motion pictures during the Roaring Twenties....
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1923
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This well-cast light comedy was based on the stage play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Three clerks for the Kincaid...
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1923
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Leading lady Lois Wilson considered this fine western her favorite of six films she starred in opposite virile leading man...
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1923
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Louisiana-born Leatrice Joy plays Chinese princess Taou Yuen in Java Head. To save himself from being executed in a gruesome...
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1923
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After Hollywood was rocked by several scandals, the specter of censorship reared its ugly head. To keep local community...
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1923
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This implausible crime drama had the benefit of Betty Compson's presence: she was best known for playing lady criminals....
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1923
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After a promising start (not to mention a really good cast), this stylish society drama gets bogged down in overwrought...
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1923
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It was impossible for director Sam Wood to include all of Arthur Train's sprawling novel in this picture. Instead he seems to...
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1923
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Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from...
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1923
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Part of this romantic comedy was shot in a palatial Beverly Hills mansion, which happened to belong to the film's star,...
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1923
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1923
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This farcical melodrama starring Jack Holt was a pleasant program feature. Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has...
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1923
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Leatrice Joy outshines the trite material and the rest of the cast in this Paramount release. Although it was adapted from...
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1923
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This picture did great at the box office, and no wonder -- Paramount's biggest star of the day, Gloria Swanson, co-starred...
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1922
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This picture was one of several that Sam Wood directed for Gloria Swanson, and its lavishness shows the influence of Cecil B....
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1922
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This Western -- which like many silent-era pictures was based on a Saturday Evening Post story (this one by Peter B. Kyne) --...
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1922
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At the time this film was released, its star, Wallace Reid, was supposedly spending some time in a sanitarium, getting a much...
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1922
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1922
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As Gloria Swanson's star rose higher and higher, Paramount endlessly repeated the formula that brought her fame -- take a...
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1922
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Having played a sheik, it only made sense to cast Rudolph Valentino -- whose first name was still being spelled Rodolph -- as...
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1922
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Character actor Theodore Roberts was better known for his scene-stealing supporting roles than he was as a star in his own...
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1922
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Virile Jack Holt was perfectly cast as the title character in this brawling South Seas drama. New Yorker Robert Kendall...
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1922
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This jumbled light comedy was one of the last pictures featuring silent matinee idol Wallace Reid -- after being given...
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1922
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Although this comedy had an awful lot of inconsistencies, it still was an nicely entertaining programmer -- plus it had the...
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1922
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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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1922
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This drama, made a year before William Desmond Taylor was mysteriously murdered, is one of the few films he directed which...
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1921
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Reginald Jay (Wallace Reid) has taken to his bed to avoid testifying in a divorce case. He decides that feigning illness...
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1920
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1920
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Wallace Reid plays one of his speed demon roles in this picture, which is based on the Saturday Evening Post story, "The...
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1920
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Sylvester Tibble (Wallace Reid) comes to New York City to work at the jug business run by his uncle, Enoch Jones...
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1920
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1919
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Despite an industrywide reluctance to cast non-Caucasians in leading roles in the mid-teens, Japanese stage star...
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1916
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1916
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The "Armstrong" in Armstrong's Wife was played by Thomas Meighan, just on the verge of his superstardom. As indicated by the...
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1915
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1914
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1914
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