Reported to have cost a whopping $2 million, this musical was actually made for far less -- and looks it. But unlike She Done...
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Mrs. Smith
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1933
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A Parisian flower girl is trotted out as the missing Grand Duchess Anastasia in this fast-moving thriller based on a popular...
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1932
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In this western, based on a Zane Grey novel, the hero leaves town after someone is killed during a feud. As he escapes, he...
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1932
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When European princess Lee comes back to her Midwestern hometown, she is thought to be a seamstress and goes along with the...
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1931
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This British remake of 1923's Captain Applejack follows the courageous exploits of a mild mannered citizen who fights back...
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1931
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Wiped out in the 1929 Wall Street crash, Fred Warner (Conrad Nagel) is no longer able to support his spendthrift wife Eve...
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1930
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In this romantic comedy, a fighter goes to a southern town to train for the championship. He soon falls in love. The girl...
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1930
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Lawyer Wyn Huntley (Jack Mulhall) is a lion in the courtroom, but a lamb when it comes to women. In love with the beautiful...
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1930
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One of the most overworked plots of the silent era was the one about an Eastern wastrel who toughens up on a Western ranch....
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1930
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In this early sound drama, an ex-socialite is forced to get a job after hard times cause her to lose her fortune. In her new...
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1929
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Mrs. Molnar
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1929
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In this sentimental drama, the son of a Jewish pushcart vendor abandons his roots as he builds himself a successful new life...
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1929
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The Technicolor "spectacular" The Viking was loosely based on the exploits of Norwegian explorer Leif Ericsson. Using O. A....
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1929
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In her second talking picture, Loretta Young stars as Gladys Cosgrove, the ticket-taker at a small-town movie house. Although...
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Mrs. Pomfret
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1929
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Frank Lloyd both produced and directed The Divine Lady, a Hollywood slant on the 19th century romance of Lord Horatio Nelson...
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1929
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Most of the films of silent screen starlet Olive Borden have apparently been lost to the ages, and Columbia's The Eternal...
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1929
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1929
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1928
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The Clara Bow vehicle Three Week Ends was based on a story by Elinor Glyn, the romance novelist who bestowed the "It Girl"...
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Mrs. Witherspoon
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1928
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Raised in a convent, pretty young heiress Mara (Josephine Boro) has been slated from birth to wed Russian officer Ivan Orloff...
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1928
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In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar...
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1928
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Mrs. Henry Grayson
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1928
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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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Mrs. Van Norman
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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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Wings, the first feature film to win an Academy Award, tends to disappoint a little when seen today. Too much time is...
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1927
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1927
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Adapted from a play by Victor Sardou, Diplomacy was another collaboration between actress Blanche Sweet and her then-husband...
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1926
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This society drama, adapted from the play by Arthur Richman, was the first directorial effort of cinematographer Silvano...
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1926
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The masterful direction of Frank Borzage adds three-dimensionality to the otherwise cardboard complications in Easy to Wed....
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Mrs. Hayden
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1926
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This melodrama, released after Vitagraph had been bought by Warner Bros., was one of the last directorial efforts from film...
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1926
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Although trade paper Motion Picture News insisted no pun was intended, readers probably groaned anyhow when it stated that...
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Mrs. Ballard
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1925
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Because Little Old New York was so successful, MGM and newspaper/sometime film magnate William Randolph Hearst decided to put...
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1925
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When her father dies, Charmion Winship (Betty Blythe) is left completely penniless. But she wants to live well so she travels...
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Dippy Helen
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1923
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1923
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This silent era classic was based on the swashbuckling adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, the author whose works later...
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The Countess Therese de Plougastel
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1923
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Although it wasn't much more than a standard programmer, this society drama was well cast. When he loses both his wife and...
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1922
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Although she had been Fox's replacement vamp after the exit of Theda Bara, Betty Blythe chose a far less exotic character...
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Mrs. Nevins
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1922
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Other than the title, this horseracing melodrama had little to do with the Stephen Foster song. Kentucky native Richard...
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Mrs. Goodloe
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1922
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The answer to the burning question posed by this low-budget domestic drama was that they tended to want more from life than...
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Mrs. Bascom
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1922
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Mae Marsh stars in this society/crime drama, which rates just a tad above your average programmer. The unscrupulous Arthur...
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Mrs. Dorothy Carter
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1922
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aka Handcuffs and Kisses The producers of this picture apparently got their inspiration from a magazine story about the...
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Mrs. Walton
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1921
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Even though he pays all her bills, Herbert Porter (Montagu Love) refuses to give his wife Helen (Barbara Castleton) any cash....
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Mrs Crest
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1921
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This drama was adapted from a popular novel by Samuel Merwin. Matt Moore stars as Henry Calverly, an ex-convict who went to...
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Madam Watt
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1921
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Secret agent George Johnson (Coit Albertson) recalls the story of two orphan girls to a pair of cohorts at a Paris cafe. The...
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"Gentle Annie"
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1921
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After making a hit in the Torchy series of two-reelers, Johnny Hines chose this lively picture as his first full-length...
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1921
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Margaret Brooke (Elaine Hammerstein) has a lovely voice, and the choirmaster at her church suggests that she travel from her...
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1920
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Vania (Emmy Wehlen) is a political refugee who travels from Russia to the United States. But even in America, she is pursued...
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1920
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Charles Stoddard (Creighton Hale) is a struggling Greenwich Village painter. He lives with his wife and two children, Walter...
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1920
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Also known as Captain Abe's Niece, this Vitagraph 5-reeler stars the studio's all-purpose leading lady Alice Joyce. The scene...
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1919
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Because of a stipulation in a will, Southern girl Dulcie (Gladys Leslie) must go to New York and live with her Uncle John...
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1919
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Husky leading man Harry T. Morey won't be happy in life until he finds The Desired Woman. Morey experience a series of...
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1918
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1917
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Though not quite as popular as he'd been a few years earlier, Vitagraph leading man Earle Williams could still "open" a...
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1917
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Originally a novel and then a stage play, Arsene Lupin should have made an intriguing film, but something in its suave spirit...
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1917
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Anita Stewart's lovely presence couldn't hide the fact that this drama featured one of the most tired plotlines of the silent...
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1917
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The trade magazine Variety hailed Vitagraph's The Daring of Diana as a "return" to old-fashioned melodrama -- as if this...
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1916
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A story by Cyrus Townsend Brady was the foundation for the lavish Vitagraph star vehicle My Lady's Slipper. The popular...
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1916
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1916
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1915
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Juggernaut might be better known today if it hadn't had the bad luck to open the same week as D.W. Griffith's super-spectacle...
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1915
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This Vitagraph three-reeler stars two of the studio's most popular attractions, Anita Stewart and John Emerson. While married...
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1915
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In a war-torn world, enemies of the United States use pacifists as pawns to insure that the Government doesn't spend too much...
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1915
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"A Melodrama in Three Acts," this Vitagraph production was written for the screen by Marguerite Bertsch. The villain of the...
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1914
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Marguerite Bertsch, one of Vitagraph's busiest screenwriters, was responsible for the three-reel "melodramatic farce" Uncle...
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1914
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It's just possible that Vitagraph didn't take this three-reel backstage yarn too seriously: the studio advertised the picture...
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1914
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1914
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1912
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1912
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1912
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Portia
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1908
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