Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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1937
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Starving artist Robert Montgomery could care less if his paintings sell, so long as he's happy. Montgomery falls in love with...
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1937
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After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an appointment to serve as head of the Bureau of...
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1936
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In the wake of The Thin Man, every studio in Hollywood scrambled to churn out sophisticated mystery-comedies wherein murders...
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1935
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The career of dance instructor Sally (Jean Parker) comes to an abrupt end when she is crippled in an accident on the eve of...
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1934
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Edna May Oliver portrays a society dowager called for jury duty on a murder trial wherein a pretty young woman is accused of...
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1932
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The Cohens and the Kellys, those ever-feuding in-laws introduced in the 1925 play Two Blocks Away, are at large again in this...
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Mrs. Kelly
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1930
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Dancing Sweeties is set primarily in a Chicago dance emporium. During a dance contest, Bill (Grant Withers) and Molly...
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Mrs. O'Neal
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1930
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Metropolitan opera star Lawrence Tibbett headed the cast of The Rogue Song, an opulent Technicolor adaptation of the...
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1930
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The Cohens and Kellys in Africa is the fourth in the seemingly endless movie series based on characters created in the 1925...
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Mrs. Kelly
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1930
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The second in a series of Buck Jones westerns produced by Sol Lesser for Columbia release, Shadow Ranch is the story of a...
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1930
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This comedy is the first episode of the five-movie series "The Cohens and Kellys." In each movie the rivalry between the...
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Mrs. Kelly
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1929
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Taking Two Weeks Off for the first time in his life, plumber Dave Pickett (Jack Mulhall) spends his savings on a posh hotel...
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1929
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1929
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Completed as a silent film, Cecil B. DeMille's The Godless Girl was quickly converted into a part-talkie by the simple...
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1929
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The confident direction of Allan Dwan transformed The Mad Hour into something more than a mere "soap opera." Based on a novel...
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1928
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1928
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A businessman and his partner rush off to Paris in hopes of stopping their children from getting married. Unfortunately, the...
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Mrs. Kelly
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1928
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"Thanks for the Buggy Ride" is the name of a tune penned by would-be songwriter Joe Hall (Glenn Tryon). On the verge of...
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1928
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Show Girl was based on a novel by J.P. McEvoy, which also inspired the long-running comic strip Dixie Dugan (Actress...
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1928
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Appropriately enough, Mountains of Manhattan was distributed by a concern known as Gotham Pictures. Charles Delaney stars as...
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1927
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Based on the popular railroad ballad, Casey Jones stars Ralph Lewis in the title role. Actually, the ballad itself is dealt...
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1927
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A bit more sedate and reserved than the usual Marion Davies vehicle, this 1927 adaptation of James M. Barrie's Quality Street...
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1927
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1927
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The "Abie's Irish Rose" formula was given yet another airing in MGM's Frisco Sally Levy. Sally O'Neil plays Colleen...
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1927
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Yet another amiable Hoot Gibson western in which the somewhat bumbling star is caught up in, of all things, a Chinese Tong...
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1926
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The incredible success of the Broadway comedy Abie's Irish Rose sent movie producers scurrying abot for similar...
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1926
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Another triumph for the ever-popular Milton Sills, Paradise casts the star as Tony, a characteristically feisty stunt pilot....
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Lady George
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1926
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Hungarian director Michael Curtiz made his American film bow with the highly stylized crime melodrama The Third Degree. Set...
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Mrs. Chubb
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1926
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1926
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Love's Blindness was another bit of hothouse exotica from romance novelist and self-appointed social arbiter Madame Elinor...
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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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Ma O'Dore
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1926
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Based on a musical comedy by Edward Dowling, this picture was Joan Crawford's breakthrough film. Her Charleston in this and...
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1925
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The Goose Woman was inspired by the notorious Hall-Mills murder case, wherein a woman known as the "Pig Woman" was wheeled...
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1925
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Pasty-faced comedian Larry Semon was both producer and star of the modestly titled The Perfect Clown. Semon plays Bert Larry,...
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Mrs. Mulligan
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1925
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This drama about a Jewish family on New York's Lower East side marked the screen debut of respected stage actor Rudolph...
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1925
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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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1925
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The Summons by Katherine Newlin Burt made for such tired movie material that director Robert G. Vignola and scenarist...
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1925
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This rather trite romance was saved by its colorful backdrop; the setting is the New York Bowery of the early 1890s. Mamie...
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1924
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Virile House Peters stars in this melodrama based on the stage play by Lincoln J. Carter. Tornado (Peters) has come to a...
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1924
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John Gilbert was on the brink of superstardom when he appeared in this routine domestic drama -- his fame would explode...
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Mattie
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1924
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Deft light comedienne Constance Talmadge seems woefully out of place in this historical drama of 17th century England. It was...
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1923
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This was the second silent version of the oft-filmed Rex Beach novel (made three more times in the sound era). Roy Glennister...
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1923
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Lydia Ryan
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1923
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This light comedy suited Viola Dana quite well. She plays Mary Bishop, a small town girl whose sweetheart, Fred Garrison...
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1923
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This comedy-drama starring Gladys Walton used the stale premise of the suddenly-wealthy working class family who are trying...
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Bridget Schultz
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1923
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This old-fashioned drama was based on the novel Youth Triumphant by George Gibb. Patsy, a little slum girl (Virginia Lee...
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1923
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In this rather artificial drama, Shirley Mason plays Constance Bailey, a rich girl who refuses to marry her sweetheart, Bruce...
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1922
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Following a year-long absence from the screen, Gladys Brockwell returned to films in this Universal melodrama. When she tries...
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1922
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Lon Chaney Sr. plays David Webster, an honest lawyer unjustly sentenced to a 15-year jail term. Upon his release, Webster...
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1922
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Come on Over is the saga of an Irish-American family. What's past is prologue in this case, as the trials and tribulations of...
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Delia Morahan
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1922
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Buster Keaton collides head first with unholy matrimony in this hilarious two-reel comedy. A burly Irishwoman (Kate Price)...
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1922
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This pleasant little programmer features minor Universal star Gladys Walton. Walton is Maisie O'Day, who lives in New York...
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Mrs. O'Day
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1922
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Mary Pickford was at the height of her fame as "America's Sweetheart" when she took on the challenge of playing two roles --...
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Mrs. McGinty, the Applewoman
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1921
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Dinty O'Sullivan (Wesley Barry) is the son of poor Irish immigrants. His father was killed the day he and his mother arrived...
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1920
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Silent star Douglas Fairbanks made a rare visit to the director's chair (accompanied by his friend and frequent collaborator...
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1918
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Dr. Loring (Earle Williams) may be a master of his profession, but at home it is his ice-princess wife who rules the roost....
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1918
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Coming as it did on the heels of what many consider to be Mary Pickford's greatest triumph, Stella Maris (1918), this film...
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1918
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Despite director Frank Capra's claims that he "discovered" May Robson for his 1933 production Lady for a Day, the venerable...
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1916
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1915
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Housekeeper
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1912
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