Edward Everett Horton made a series of eight comic shorts in the late 1920s in which he played a Charley Chase type of...
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1928
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This was comedian Harold Lloyd's last silent film, and one of his most charming. Lloyd's character here is called Harold...
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1928
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Princess Torini
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1927
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Released with sound effects and a music score that included the song "When Love Comes Smiling" by Walter Hirsch, Lew Pollack...
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Queen Anne
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1927
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1927
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Clara Bow plays an inveterate flirt who impulsively marries much-older mountain man Ernest Torrence. When city lawyer...
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1926
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Two alumni from the old Thomas Ince Studios -- director Emmet Flynn and Tom's actor-director brother Ralph -- collaborated on...
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1926
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For Wives Only was based on the stage play The Critical Year. The story takes place in Vienna, where handsome Dr. Rittenhaus...
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1926
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This nicely made Paramount feature benefits from the humanity and wit of writer/director William C. DeMille, and the spark of...
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1926
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Lady Gwendolyn (Blanche Sweet, who, at the time, was married to Marshall Neilan) is the daughter of Sir Alfred Grayle, a...
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Countess Van Alstyne
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1925
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Fred Prouty (Warner Baxter) and his wife, Nettie (Lois Wilson), are living happily until the day that his aged father (Luke...
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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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This silent adaptation of Franz Lehar's famous operetta (in which precious little of the original story was retained) was a...
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Queen Milena
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1925
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Because of the recent Tea Pot Dome scandal, oil fields were a big topic of discussion in early 1924. Even though this...
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1924
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On his friend's wedding day, disgusted best man Harold Lloyd swears that "I will never give up my freedom for a pair of...
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Mrs. Winnefred Ward Stokes
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1924
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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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Author Anthony Hope's sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda had been filmed once before, in 1915. But filmgoers were far more...
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1923
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This drama -- slightly sensational and moralistic -- was typical of the feature fare put out by low-budget film company...
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1923
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Cecil B. DeMille was busy developing Leatrice Joy into a glamorous star a la Gloria Swanson when she was loaned out to...
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Stepmother
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1923
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The massacre of the Huguenots, previously dramatized in broad strokes by Griffith's Intolerance, served as the basis for...
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Catherine de Medici
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1923
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Although busy with the Tom Mix and Buck Jones westerns, the Fox company also issued non-series oaters such as Lights of the...
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1922
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aka A Bride of the Gods This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least...
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1922
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May McAvoy was on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's most popular stars when she appeared in this pleasant comedy-drama....
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1922
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This was a pleasant, though not particularly exciting vehicle for light comedienne Viola Dana. Circumstances force wealthy...
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1922
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Madge Joy (Viola Dana) is an actress with a cheap theatrical troupe, but she loses her job when a stage-struck young girl...
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"Ma" Deep
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1921
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Author Gertrude Atherton wrote this story especially for the screen; it is supposedly based on a true story that happened in...
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1921
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Bunty Pulls the Strings was adapted from the immensely popular stage farce by Graham Moffat. Leatrice Joy stars as a Scottish...
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1921
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Long before he began playing bit-part judges and college professors, Edward J. LeSaint was a busy film director at Fox...
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1920
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As a child, Nellie Jarvis (Lillian Gish) witnessed a murder, but it only remains a shadowy memory. After the death of her...
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1920
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All Metro Studios had to do back in 1920 was put the name Viola Dana on a movie marquee, and the red ink miraculously turned...
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1920
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This spy melodrama was based on a novel by Samuel Merwin called Dinner at Eight, though it bears no relation whatsoever to...
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1920
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On the heels of his masterpiece, Intolerance, which dramatized the futility of war born out of prejudice, director...
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1918
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Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa was one of the most popular leading men in American silent films-this despite the fact that...
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1918
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1918
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was the first film version of the Kate Douglas Wiggin novel and play. Mary Pickford, 23 years old...
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1917
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It's hard to imagine the vivaciously stylish Constance Talmadge as a boarding-house drudge, but that's the part she plays...
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1917
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Norma Talmadge, already a star but not yet a STAR, played the eponymous heroine in 1916's Martha's Vindication. To protect...
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1916
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John Coburn (Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree), who hails from a rural area, is elected senator and he comes to the big city with...
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1916
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1916
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The Little School Ma'am is Nan, portrayed by Dorothy Gish. A Southern gal, Nan heads westward to take charge of a classroom...
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1916
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The ever-increasing popularity of Wallace Reid was given an additional boost with the four-reel Mutual production Yankee From...
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1915
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Based on a controversial novel by Robert Ellis Wales, The Penitentes was inspired by a real-life religious cult which thrived...
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1915
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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1914
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This innovative psychological drama represents one of D.W. Griffith's early full-length feature films and contains...
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1912
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