This routine drama was spiced up by a good cast and solid directing. A clerk (Lloyd Hughes) loses his job, so his wife,...
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1927
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The Masked Woman was one of the last screenwriting efforts by June Mathis, who died in 1927. Filmed on location in France,...
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1927
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Producer, Screenwriter
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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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Even minus the original musical score, this silent-film adaptation of the Broadway hit Irene is a delight. Colleen Moore...
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1926
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The advertising tag "four years in the making" is usually so much press-agent puffery. In the case of the 1926 silent version...
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1925
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After her impressive dramatic role in So Big, Colleen Moore returned to light comedies (mostly because her studio knew they...
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1925
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This comedy-drama was based on a play by Israel Zangwill and meant to cash in on the fame Colleen Moore earned from Flaming...
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1925
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Proving once and for all that Western filmmaking was treacherous work even for the greatest of stars, Colleen Moore broke her...
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1925
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This comedy was based on a novel by author Edna Ferber. Although she is merely a classified ads employee, Babs Comet (Corinne...
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1925
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Aileen Pringle plays the Queen of Sardalia (one of your average, everyday mythical European principalities), who is unhappily...
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Editor, Screenwriter
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1924
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Intertitle Writer, Screenwriter
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1924
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The rights to Don Cesar, the novel by Vicente Blasco-Ibanez, were originally purchased by Paramount as a vehicle for Rudolph...
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Screenwriter
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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Eleanor Boardman and William Haines came to Hollywood when they were winners in the same contest held by the Goldwyn studios....
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1923
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This film is based on the novel by F. Marion Crawford, and involves the court of King Philip II of Spain. Philip is jealous...
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1923
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This drama was an early starring vehicle for fledgling star (Eleanor Boardman), and it was given a haunting directoral...
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1923
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Rex Ingram's talents as a director are very much in evidence in this drama, which is leavened by a sizable dose of comedy,...
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1922
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Although she came from a comedy background, Alice Lake preferred to concentrate on dramas during most of the 1920s. The...
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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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1922
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Alice Lake has a surprisingly unsympathetic role in this melodrama, based on a magazine story by mystery writer Wadsworth...
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1922
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Screenwriter, Singer
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1921
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Famed screenwriter June Mathis wrote the screenplay to this comedy from Kennett Harris's Saturday Evening Post story, "Junk."...
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Screenwriter
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1921
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Although by no means the definitive version of the Alexander Dumas story -- scenarist June Mathis modernizes it and the...
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1921
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1921
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Bert Lytell stars in this slightly absurd romantic comedy. When Bedford Mills (Lytell) returns from the Great War (or World...
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1921
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The Saphead was based on the tried-and-true Winchell Smith stage comedy The New Henrietta, previously filmed in 1915 as...
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1920
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This Drury Lane melodrama, based on Cecil Raleigh's play, was given top-rate direction by Rex Ingram. Lord Altcar...
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1920
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Angie (Emma Dunn) has been married to Captain Abe Rose (Henry Harmon) for decades. Now bad investments are forcing them out...
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1920
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This amusing Universal comedy starred Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely. Wannabe writer Johnny Rutledge (Hamilton) lives in the...
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1919
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1919
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Alla Nazimova indulges her penchant for high melodrama in this screen adaptation of an Austen Adams stage play, Ception...
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1919
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In this atmospheric Chinese tale, (Alla Nazimova) plays Mahlee, a half-white, half-Chinese girl educated in Western ways by...
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1919
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1919
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Alla Nazimova went from heavy-handed dramatic spectaculars to light comedy-drama with this picture, based on a hit play by...
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1919
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Expert farceur Emmy Wehlen plays the title character in The Amateur Adventuress. A plain girl of modest means, Wehlen decides...
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1919
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Like many another adventure film of the era, With Neatness and Dispatch was based on a Saturday Evening Post story by...
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1918
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1918
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The Eyes of Mystery was one of the first full-blooded melodramas directed by Tod Browning, who soon became an acknowledged...
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1918
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1918
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1918
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Only the manly presence of Francis X. Bushman saved Red, White and Blue Blood from being as silly as its title. The...
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1917
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1917
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Filmed on location at Saranac Lake and the St. Lawrence River in New York State, The Jury of Fate starred Mabel Taliaferro in...
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1917
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Screenwriter
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1917
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In the later stages of his career, Lionel Barrymore was often cast as an irascible millionaire plagued with irresponsible...
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1917
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For years, it was a "given" that no director of merit ever emerged from the old Edison studios. This assertion was disproved...
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1917
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Screenwriter
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1917
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God's Half Acre stars J. W. Johnston as famed novelist Henry Norman. Seeking "local color" for his latest book, Norman moves...
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1916
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