Alcoholic John Bowers heads to the Great Northwest, hoping that the fresh air and exercise will help him swear off booze....
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1931
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1929
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1929
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Priscilla Dean made a name for herself in the silent era by playing lady crooks for Universal. By the mid-'20s, however, her...
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1927
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Edward H. Griffith, whose list of directorial credits extended back to the Edison Studios days, was at the controls of...
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1927
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John Bowers, the actor whose roller-coaster career and tragic death allegedly inspired the movie A Star is Born, heads the...
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Ted Mason
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1927
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Heroes in Blue is predicated on the rivalry between two Irish-American clans. Sally Rand, the daughter of one family, falls...
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1927
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Henry Lehrman and Percy Pembroke, two graduates of the 2-reel comedy mills, shared directorial responsibilities for...
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1927
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James Finlay
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1927
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Heart of the Yukon was one of director W.S. Van Dyke's last independent films before he began his lengthy association with...
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Jim Winston
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1927
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1927
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This drama was filmed on location in Alaska, including the largest fox farm in the Northwest (fur was very much in demand in...
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1926
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Gaunt, aristocratic-looking character-actor H.B. Warner was slightly miscast as author Frank Hamilton Spearman's popular...
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McCloud
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1926
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Priscilla Dean was at her best when she was playing lady crooks, and in this entertaining mystery, no one is quite sure which...
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1926
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1926
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1926
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This independently produced silent action melodrama starred the husband-and-wife team of John Bowers and Marguerite de la...
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1926
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Chickie Bryce (Dorothy Mackaill) is a stenographer, who, encouraged by her mother (Gladys Brockwell), longs to marry a...
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Harry Dunne
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1925
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Director Victor Sjöström gave MGM this well-crafted adaptation of Alphonse Daudet's novel, Kings in Exile. The King of...
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Prince Alexei
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1925
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Dick Foster
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1925
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This standard underworld meller was dressed up with good performances and an entertaining approach. Nancy Preston (Marguerite...
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1925
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The popular husband-wife team of John Bowers and Marguerite de la Motte starred in Flattery. Bowers plays civil engineer...
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Reginald Mallory
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1925
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Character actor William V. Mong rarely landed a role that was a real tour de force, but he has one -- or, rather, two -- in...
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Donald Brett
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1925
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This bizarre seafaring melodrama starred the ill-fated John Bowers (in 1936 he committed suicide by walking into the ocean,...
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Captain Martin Manning
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1924
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More a romantic melodrama set on a western ranch than an out-and-out sagebrush tale, this Vitagraph silent features a couple...
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Rex
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1924
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Grant Van Gore
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1924
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Lawrence Knight "Patches"
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1924
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Milt Kimberlin (John Bowers) is a down-on-his luck horse owner, but Rosalie, a cabaret performer (the lively and engaging...
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1924
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Pervus DeJong
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1924
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Although Leah Baird was one of cinema's woman pioneers, by the 1920s her time had pretty much come and gone. That didn't stop...
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1923
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Since Wallace Beery stood out as King Richard in Douglas Fairbanks' Robin Hood, it wasn't too much of a leap to cast him as...
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1923
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Madalyn Harlan (Estelle Taylor), the daughter of wealthy socialites, falls in love with the chauffeur Jerry Ryan...
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Bob Elkins
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1923
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This sentimental rural drama was based on the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. Frankie Lee plays Dick Alden, the barefoot boy...
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Dick Alden
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1923
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The "shocking" (by 1923 standards) title to this picture was just a smokescreen -- in reality, it was merely a domestic soap...
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Jim Parker
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1923
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In this comedy romance, Claude Gillingwater plays a Southern Colonel who has the impossible task of keeping Viola Dana away...
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David Gordon
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1923
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In this drama based on the novel by Henry Kistaemaecher, Clara Kimball Young plays Vivian Hunt, a woman married to aspiring...
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1923
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While competently made and well cast, this drama still wasn't all that entertaining. Writer Sheila Dorne (Marguerite de la...
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Jim Russell
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1923
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Having served her apprenticeship as leading lady to Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, Alice Lake graduated to stardom in the...
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James Llewelyn
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1922
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This adaptation of the R.D. Blackmore novel won acclaim for Madge Bellamy, and helped bring her stardom. Sir Charles Ensor...
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John Ridd
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1922
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Contrary to popular belief, the career of Mary Miles Minter did not end the moment that director William Desmond Taylor was...
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John Webster
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1922
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Angela Gaskill (Betty Compson) travels to the South Seas to help sailor John Somers (John Bowers) kick his addition to...
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John Somers
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1922
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Still a few years away from super stardom, Colleen Moore toiled in this low-budget romantic comedy based on...
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1922
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Based on the popular novel of rural life by Charles Felton Pidgin, this motion picture featured most of the star names that...
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
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1922
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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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Based on a story by Gouverneur Morris, this drama involves a group of terrorists whose motive is to do away with capitalists...
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1921
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Leatrice Joy and Richard Dix play an ambitious couple in this domestic drama. John and Katherine Colby (Dix and Joy) decide...
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Tom Donaldson
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1921
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Before he was known as "the man of a thousand faces," Lon Chaney had already become famous for portraying underworld...
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Graham
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1921
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"Sky Pilot" was early 20th-century slang for a preacher man. The title character, played by John Bowers, arrives in the...
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The Sky Pilot
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1921
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David Marsh (John Bowers) and his brother Lewis (Richard Tucker) are both in love with Ann Hardy (Jane Novak). Lewis, who has...
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David Marsh
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1921
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Although he wouldn't find his true place in motion pictures until the talkie era, humorist Will Rogers certainly made a lot...
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Hunter
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1921
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The crusty Russell Simpson and villainous James Mason portray a particularly evil father and son team in this intense sea...
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Dan Darrin
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1921
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Hal G. Evart's very "London-esque" 1920 dog melodrama The Cross Pull reached the screen the following year as The Silent...
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Clark Moran
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1921
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The trade magazine Motion Picture News called Mary Miles Minter "a clever little star when she has the right backing." Read...
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1920
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Margaret Hill (Barbara Castleton) is a poor factory girl who plans to commit suicide when she loses her job. But she is saved...
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1920
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1919
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In this comedy, Madge Kennedy plays actress Fanny O'Gorman, who falls in love with artist Vernon (John Bowers). Vernon also...
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1919
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In this silent romance, an Orthodox Jewish girl falls in love with a Christian fellow, an aspiring author. The girl's...
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1919
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The Pest is one of the seemingly endless Cinderella-type stories that comedienne Mabel Normand did for Goldwyn. This time...
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1919
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Because Phil Marsden (John Bowers) has become infatuated with musical comedy actress Bernice D'Armond (Louise Vale), his wife...
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1918
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Even though her father, William Brady was head of World Film, actress Alice Brady occasionally got stuck with a few clinkers;...
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1918
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The wheels begin turning in Joan of the Woods when big-city lawyer Philip Wentworth (George MacQuarrie) impulsively marries a...
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1918
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When musical comedy star Harry Caton (John Bowers) loses his voice, he goes to the seashore to recuperate. But he doesn't...
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1918
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The Oldest Law was adapted from The Price She Did Not Pay, a play by Romena Rue. Fresh from the mountains, Jennie Cox...
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1918
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Even though the plot to this World Film programmer was slight, the cast included some of the studio's most well-known names....
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1918
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Alice Brady was the biggest star on the World Studio lot, and small wonder: her father, theatrical impresario William H....
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1917
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Because of her father's death at the hands of Russian soldiers, Ilda Barosky (Alice Brady) carries a grudge against the...
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1917
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Although Ellen Franklin (Alice Brady) consents to marry John Locke (David Powell), she's reluctant to have a family since,...
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1917
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A Self Made Widow begins conventionally enough as farm girl Sylvia Smith (Alice Brady) is lured to the city by a...
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1917
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In reflection of the patriotic fervor attending America's entry into WWI, the World Film Corporation felt emboldened to serve...
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1917
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With Mary Pickford in the lead, it is perhaps superfluous to name the actress who played the title character in Hulda From...
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1916
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"Capital vs. Labor" was the theme of the Mary Pickford vehicle The Eternal Grind. One of several films inspired by the tragic...
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1916
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