After several years' absence from the screen, the vivacious Betty Hutton made a somewhat tepid comeback in Spring Reunion....
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May Brewster
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1957
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MGM's newest child star Jackie "Butch" Jenkins--lisp and all--is the title character in this overlong family drama. The...
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1947
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In this drama, a Navy officer is court-martialed after he saves the survivors of a German submarine attack instead of...
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1936
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In this romance, a down-on-his-luck fellow saves a pretty woman from drowning herself, gives her shelter, and falls in love....
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, a widow listens to the advice of a widowed friend and stages a bogus burglary to win back the...
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1934
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The Girl in Possession was one of the best of a cluster of entertaining "quota quickies" produced in the early 1930s by...
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Eve Chandler
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1934
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A church mouse may be quiet, but not in this zippy British comedy from Warner Bros.' Teddington Studios. Hollywood's...
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1934
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New Yorker La Plante concocts an imaginary fiance with the name of Lord Michael of Ware to keep the deluge of admirers away....
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1933
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Alan Hale Sr. plays an American navy officer who allows German sub commander Peter Erkenlez to escape prosecution at the end...
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1931
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When Lt. Bob Denton (John Wayne) tells his girlfriend Evelyn (Laura La Plante) that he has no intention of marrying her, she...
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Evelyn Palmer
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1931
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God's Gift to Women demonstrated conclusively that Warner Bros. would never make a movie star out of Broadway comedian...
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Diane
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1931
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Five characters find themselves playing a lively game of musical beds in this saucy pre-Code comedy. Richard...
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Diane
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1931
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Two holdovers from the silent-film era top the cast of Columbia's Meet the Wife. Laura La Plante and Lew Cody are cast...
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Gertrude Lennox
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1931
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Intended as Universal Pictures' entry in the "all-star musical" cycle of the early talkie era, King of Jazz is certainly the...
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Herself
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1930
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This French epic chronicles the French Revolution as seen by Rouget de Lisle, the man who composed the French national...
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1930
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Laura La Plante starred in this early sound comedy-drama about a girl who leaves her lawyer husband to study painting in...
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Mary Hopkins
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1929
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Directed by William Wyler, The Love Trap centers around a chorus girl whose sudden job termination (on the day of her...
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Laura Todd
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1929
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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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In this mystery, a producer reopens a theater where five years before, a lead actor was killed on stage during a...
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Doris
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1929
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Show Boat was a part-silent, part-talkie adaptation of the book by Edna Ferber. The film traces the life of Magnolia Hawkes...
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Magnolia
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1929
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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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Jenny
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1928
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Barbara Archiblad
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1928
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A pleasant but unremarkable comedy from Universal, Home James featured the studio's premiere light comedian Laura La Plante...
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1928
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Frank Willard's barn-storming stage melodrama Cat and the Canary was filmed four times over a fifty-year period. This silent...
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Annabelle West
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1927
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Joyce Brandon (Laura La Plante) is in love with Jack Sturdevant (Tom Moore), but he doesn't even know she's alive. As a means...
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Joyce Bragdon
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1927
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Universal star Laura LaPlante struggles to fill out a very scanty story in this lightweight farce comedy. Molly and Sam...
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1927
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Handsome doctor Bryant Washburn specializes in the ailments of women -- more specifically, wealthy widows. Washburn's...
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1927
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A minor silent comedy-drama, Her Big Night featured Grace Darmond, a blond former serial queen, as the secretary of a...
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1926
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The best of comic actor Reginald Denny's silent vehicles, Skinner's Dress Suit is a surprising contemporary piece about...
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Mrs. Skinner
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1926
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Olga Balashova
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1926
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The wife
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1926
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The Beautiful Cheat was a cute parody of the motion-picture business. Most of the story takes place in a fly-by-night movie...
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Maritza Chernovska
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1926
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Ninety percent of the silent films of director Edward H. Sloman have been lost to the ages, and Butterflies in the Rain is no...
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1926
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After being raised in England, Ann Church (Laura La Plante) sails back to her parents in Bombay. She meets Major Anthony...
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Ann Church
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1925
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Smouldering Fires is a first-rate silent "soap opera," immaculately performed by its superb cast and brilliantly directed by...
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Dorothy Vale
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1925
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Laura La Plante stars in this light comedy, directed by her future husband, William Seiter (the couple were wed in 1927 and...
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Anne Barton
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1925
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Nila Lyons (Laura La Plante) is a suburban housewife who craves excitement in her life. She gets it -- and how! -- when she's...
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1924
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Betsy Burke
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1924
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Roxbury Mecroft (Richard Tucker) has to go to New York incognito to engage in some top-secret financial work, and he asks his...
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Connie
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1924
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This fast-paced but undistinguished farce was Laura La Plante's second starring vehicle for Universal. Colonel Faraday...
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Diana
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1924
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Against the wishes of director Harry A. Pollard, Reginald Denny insisted on casting Laura La Plante to play opposite him. His...
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1924
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Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values....
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Octavia Lowden
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1924
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1924
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Universal's premiere cowboy star of the 1920s, Hoot Gibson, was in fine form in this pleasant comedy-oater directed by the...
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1923
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Mary Randolph
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1923
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Crooked Alley was adapted from one of the many "Boston Blackie" stories by Jack Boyle. The comparatively unknown...
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Norine Tyrell
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1923
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Hoot Gibson takes off his cowboy gear and dons a naval uniform in this comedy-drama. Sam Pertune (Gibson) is in love with Mae...
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Mae Day
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1923
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Released in 12 chapters, two reels each, this Universal serial starred the veteran William Desmond as Phineas Fogg III, the...
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Madge Harlow
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1923
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Keeping in mind that "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for a friend," a Northwest Mounted Police...
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Mary Malcolm
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1923
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Universal star Hoot Gibson loved playing the shy, country bumpkin who gets the girl despite seemingly insurmountable odds. He...
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1923
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Writer Rupert Hughes chose this predictable story as his first directorial effort, but he brings it fresh life with the help...
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Prue Nickerson
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1922
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Molly Dom
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1921
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When small town boy Johnny Carroll (Johnnie Walker) heads out for the big city, he finds himself on the wrong side of the law...
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1921
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With the onslaught of the Roaring Twenties, there was a backlash instigated by people who were nostalgic for simpler times....
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Myrtle
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1921
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Mildred Hart
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1921
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Dorothy Gish stars as a superstitious young miss in this silly farce comedy. Frances Wadsworth (Gish) keeps her eyes on the...
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1919
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