Barbara Stanwyck headlines this romantic tearjerker as a free-spirited concert pianist dying of tuberculosis. She checks into...
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1947
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Rendezvous at Midnight shifts from "low" to "drive" when corrupt city commissioner Myles Crawford (Arthur Vinton) is...
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1935
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It took nerve for low-budget producer M.H. Hoffman to update Gustave Flaubert's 19th century novel Madame Bovary and relocate...
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1932
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Janet Gaynor plays a teenaged orphanage waif who protects the younger children from the harshness of the supervisors. One of...
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1931
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Mrs. Wells
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1930
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In this comedy, an aging fellow falls in love with a free-spirited flapper. His crush causes the normally dignified...
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Mrs. Cottrell
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1929
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Worried that Greta Garbo's rich, deep voice and thick Swedish accent would not record properly, MGM executives kept Garbo in...
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1929
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Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can...
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Ann's Mother
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1928
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Mrs. Garland
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1928
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Sally in Our Alley revives the old bromide about the orphan waif who is unofficially adopted by three men of different faiths...
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Mrs. Gordon Mansfield
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1927
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Jether (William Collier Jr.), a young man of Old Testament days, tends his father's sheep and longs to visit the big city. A...
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1926
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Esther Ralston, who plays a nice chorus girl in this comedy-drama, is upstaged by Margaret Livingston, who has a...
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Mrs. Bronson Lenox
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1925
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Laura Carter
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1925
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Based on Zane Grey's 1923 novel of two brothers, one an honest cowpoke, the other a gambler, this fine silent melodrama was...
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Magdalene Virey
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1924
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This drama, which featured a fine cast, looked more expensively made than it actually was. When revolution overtakes Russia,...
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Helen
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1924
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As the year anniversary of her marriage nears, Betty Jordan (Corinne Griffith) realizes that her husband, Perry...
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Dorothy Van Clark
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1924
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Isabel Whitney
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1924
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Betty Compson has solid support from some of the better character actors of the day in this adaptation of Owen Johnson's book...
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1924
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When kindly saloon keeper Tim O'Day (Ben Hendricks) is killed by a thug, his wife (Louise Dresser) takes over the business....
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Mrs. Kendall
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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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Isabel of Bourbon
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1923
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The normally low-key William C. deMille veers into the territory of his younger brother, Cecil B. DeMille, with this highly...
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Elsa Townsend
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1923
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This implausible melodrama is based on the play by William Hurlburt. Although Cordelia Ebbing (Kathlyn Williams) leaves her...
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Cordeila Ebbing@Mme. De La Fleur
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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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As naïve chorus girl, Sunny Duane (Elaine Hammerstein), finds herself in a load of trouble in this comedy-melodrama. She is...
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Jean Valjean
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1923
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Mrs. Wheeler
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1922
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Mary (Agnes Ayres) works as a seamstress for the wealthy Mallory family to support herself and her worthless husband Steve...
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Mrs. Mallory
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1921
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Frederick Osborne (Harry T. Morey) is a self-made man whose wife, Frances (Kathlyn Williams), is a naive but eager social...
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Frances Osborn
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1921
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This romance was based on William J. Locke's novel The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, which was made into a film once before in...
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Judith Mainwaring
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1921
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1921
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Clara Kimball Young (as directed by her then-husband, Harry Garson) suffers for her past indiscretions in this drama....
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Isabel Dane
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1921
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Stage and film star Marguerite Clark was Mary Pickford's biggest competition during the 1910s. Keep in mind that she was nine...
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1920
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In spite of an all-star cast and the talents of director Marshall Neilan, there wasn't much that could be done with this...
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1919
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Listed in some sources under the title The Thing We Love, this Wallace Reid vehicle was directed by another popular matinee...
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1918
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We Can't Have Everything was at once a typical Cecil B. DeMille marital comedy and also a satire of the whole genre. Aware...
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1918
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The Whispering Chorus was arguably the closest Cecil B. DeMille ever came to making an "art" picture. Stalwart DeMille...
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1918
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As its title indicates, Big Timber was set in a rugged Northwoods lumber camp. New York socialite Stella Benton...
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1917
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Parts of this adventure/drama, written by Rex Beach, were actually shot at the Panama Canal during and after its...
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1916
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Kathlyn Williams, who starred in the 1913 serial The Adventures of Kathlyn (the very first serial made in the U.S.), also...
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1915
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The 1914 version ofThe Spoilers, the first of five movie adaptations of Rex Beach's two-fisted Alaska Gold Rush novel, was...
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1914
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A silent melodrama produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, The Child of the Sea starred Kathlyn Williams as a girl who saves...
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1913
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Disgraced by drink, a doctor turns burglar in this silent melodrama from the Selig Polyscope Company. During one of his...
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1913
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In this typical Selig Polyscope two-reel melodrama, Harold Lockwood disguises himself as a hobo and goes on the road to...
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1913
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1913
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After several domestic melodramas, the young leading man of the Selig Polyscope Company, Harold Lockwood, returned to his...
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1913
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1913
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1913
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A touching so-called "uplift" melodrama, A Little Child Shall Lead Them featured the Selig Polyscope Company's leading lady...
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1913
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1913
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The leading lady of the Selig Polyscope Company, blond Kathlyn Williams, played a dual-role in this two-reel melodrama set in...
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1913
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A typical "uplift" melodrama of the early 1910s, this one-reel Selig Polyscope presentation featured Harold Lockwood as the...
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1913
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Produced in Los Angeles by the Selig Polyscope Company under the direction of Lem Parker, this one-reel marital drama...
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1913
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Written by and starring pioneering screen actress Kathlyn Williams, this Selig Polyscope Company melodrama in two reels...
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Screenwriter
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1913
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A highly dramatic one-reel melodrama from the Los Angeles branch of Chicago's Selig Polyscope Company, With Love's Eyes...
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1913
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Blond Kathlyn Williams emerged a major star with this 13-chapter action serial, the first to employ cliffhanger suspense and...
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1913
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Harold Lockwood's second film for the Selig Polyscope Company and his first of at least 19 with that studio's blond leading...
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1912
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1909
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1909
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Nick Drake: Under Review documents the short but memorable career of Nick Drake who created a devout cult following during...
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