The last of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's three MGM features, Abbott & Costello in Hollywood is a loose remake of...
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1945
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In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker. When she...
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1942
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James Stewart's last Hollywood film before entering military service, Come Live with Me teams Stewart with the hauntingly...
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1941
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Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, came up with the story upon which The Emperor's Candlesticks was based. As...
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1937
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Aspiring actress Cicely Tyler (Margaret Sullavan) puts her career on hold when she marries ambitious newsman Christopher...
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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In this comedy, a waitress at a local lunch counter inadvertently foils a bank robbery and finds herself turned into a...
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1935
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G.K. Chesterton's crime-solving cleric Father Brown was first brought to the screen in 1934, in the corpulent form of...
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1935
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In this comedy with musical numbers set in the Old South, Bing Crosby plays a singer (talk about a casting stretch!) from...
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1935
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Dore Schary, several years removed from his tenure as head of MGM, was screenwriter for the modest Universal actioner...
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1935
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A famous movie actress takes a trip to New York City. While there, she gets involved with a wisecracking cab driver who is...
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1935
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Universal's Romance in the Rain is a satire of network radio, a popular target of early-'30s movies. On behalf of dithery...
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1934
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1934
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While Tonart Studios is filming a gangster movie, one of the actors is killed in a shooting accident. After several other...
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1933
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Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and...
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1933
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Eric Linden is a bellhop who has the extreme misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time in gangster era of...
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1932
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In his first Western for 1932, Buck Jones went mostly for laughs playing a former Texas ranger inheriting an Arizona ranch...
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1932
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Aging has-been silent star Henry B. Walthall plays an aging has-been silent star in this low-budget drama from Monogram...
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Henry Field
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1932
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To say that ace stuntman Richard Talmadge was invariably better than his movie vehicles is small praise, indeed, since most...
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1931
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The exciting world of horse-racing provides the setting for this lively comedy that centers on luckless Bud Doyle, a jockey...
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1931
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Sporting Chance is a prime example of how once-prominent silent screen personalities ended up grasping at straws on Poverty...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1931
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Ostensibly based of the life and violent death of glamorous New York mobster Arnold Rothstein, this early talkie from...
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1930
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A devoted valet takes a vacation in this lively drama. After 15 years of faithful service, he has earned it. He goes to...
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Van Warner
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1930
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House of Scandal gets under way when Irish-born New York cop Danny Regan (Harry Murray) is reunited with his brother Pat...
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1928
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In a departure from his usual fare of Richard Talmadge action melodramas, low-budget entrepreneur A. Carlos produced this...
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1928
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1927
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Although she is primarily remembered as a foil for the comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch worked in...
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1927
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This minor racetrack drama was directed by King Baggot, at one time a prominent silent-film leading man. Robert Agnew stars...
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1927
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1926
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1925
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Although this film sounds like a 1920s version of Mr. Mom, in some ways it's more enlightened than the 1983 comedy -- for one...
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1925
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On a voyage from India to London, it is rumored that an infamous cracksman is onboard -- of course, it is Raffles (House...
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1925
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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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Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is going to marry her. When...
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1924
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1924
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Gossip really has very little to do with the storyline to this capital versus labor drama. It was not one of Gladys Walton's...
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1923
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After gaining a wide audience in a succession of two-reelers, "Baby" Peggy Montgomery stars in her first full-length feature....
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1923
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Gladys Walton, a now-forgotten Universal star, has the lead in this farce. Marcel Murphy (Walton) is a switchboard operator...
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1923
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Gladys Walton, who starred in many Universal Studios programmers in the early 1920s, was always good at playing working class...
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1923
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Universal showed off their impressive back lot in this comedy-western starring Hoot Gibson as a cowboy turned movie...
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1923
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Minor Universal star Gladys Walton has the lead in this light comedy. After becoming a successful chorus girl on the Broadway...
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1923
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In spite of an excellent American cast and two well-established directors, Australian action star Rex "Snowy" Baker isn't...
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1923
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Universal Studios gave Gladys Walton a number of Cinderella-type stories in an attempt to make a star of her. However, none...
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1922
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After the wild party held by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle that allegedly resulted in a girl's death, and the unsolved murder of...
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1922
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The character played by star Gladys Walton mentions lavender bath salts a couple of times -- that's about the only relation...
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1922
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This horse-racing melodrama was Reginald Denny's first starring feature, after making a strong impression in a series of...
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1922
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Marie Prevost got her start as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty, and even though this romantic comedy runs rather short for a...
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1922
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The title, either by accident or design, is very similar to another film, Lying Lips, which had been released a few months...
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1921
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Vivacious Marie Prevost starred in this pleasant little Universal comedy about a flirt who stages moonlight dances at her...
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1921
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This comedy starring Carter DeHaven and his wife Flora Parker DeHaven is rather slow-moving for a farce. It is based on a...
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1921
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Polly Gordon (Marie Prevost) is a dowdy-looking young coed who seems destined to become an old maid. Then an aunt leaves her...
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1921
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Marjorie Daw is the title character, a flirtatious young flapper by the name of Edith Folsom. Her goal is to have as many...
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Edward Van Horne
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1921
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Filmed in Australia, Fighting Breed is a Fairbanks-like comedy/drama set on a sprawling ranch. Red "Snowy" Baker plays the...
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1921
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1921
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Lilly Meany (May Allison) has grown up amongst charlatans, including her father (Frank Currier). She decides to become a...
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1920
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Claude Ditmar (Robert McKim) manages a mill and is your classic power-mad cinematic villain. He lusts after his secretary,...
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1920
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This melodrama about the recently ended World War, was based on the successful Broadway play by Lechmore Worrall and J.E....
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1919
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1918
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Written by a former chief of the Secret Service, this wartime serial produced by the Wharton brothers, Theodore and Leopold,...
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1918
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Dramatist Dick Warrington (King Baggot) is responsible for the success of actress Kate Challoner (Clara Beyers). She comes...
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1916
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The last descendants of the Lanes are Mary (Mary Miles Minter) and her dissolute cousin, Clairborne. Two land scouts from the...
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1916
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This Universal Studios melodrama gave King Baggot a juicy role. Jim Herron (Baggot) comes home to Virginia to find that his...
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1916
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Fans of silent screen star King Baggott were not in the least bothered by the fact that his was a shade too old to play the...
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1915
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Raphael, a sculptor (King Baggot) dreams that he is plying his trade in the times of ancient Greece as Phydias. On commission...
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1915
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IMP's The Baited Trap was but one ingredient of a lavish "mixed media" presentation staged at New York's Republic Theater by...
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1914
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This historical film is a silent version of this classic by Robert Louis Stevenson. predating the Barrymore version by five...
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1913
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This silent adventure, based on Sir Walter Scott's classic epic novel, is filled with pageantry and excitement as it...
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1913
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