Love Nest is a thoroughly likeable formula comedy with a most engaging cast. William Lundigan plays Jim Scott, an aspiring...
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1951
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The upsurge in commercial air travel in the postwar years resulted in several films dealing with the trials and tribulations...
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1949
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Hoping to shed itself of the onus of its low-budget predecessor PRC Pictures, Eagle-Lion productions occasionally invested in...
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1949
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Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a...
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1944
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Julie
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1940
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Best remembered as the film in which 17-year-old Deanna Durbin receives her first screen kiss, First Love is a modernized...
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1939
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"East is East, West is West, Never the Twain Shall Meet." That's the lesson to be learned in the low-budget exotic romance...
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Martha Adams
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1930
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In this comedy drama, an enormous baggage handler earns the reputation of being an all-'round good joe and soon gets...
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Mary McGregor
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1929
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Laura Sargeant
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1929
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Popular silent-screen star Leatrice Joy made an adequate talking-picture debut in MGM's The Bellamy Trial. The film was based...
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Sue Ives
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1929
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The piquant Leatrice Joy starred in this frothy marital comedy about a wife who leaves her boring husband (John Boles) to be...
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Nan Payson
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1928
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1928
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Marguerite
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1928
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Glamorous Broadway actress Babe (Leatrice Joy) is cast as a Salvation Army lass in her latest musical. For research purposes,...
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Babe
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1927
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Although Vanity was one of Leatrice Joy's most successful films, it can hardly be considered one of her best. Joy is cast as...
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Barbara Fiske
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1927
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Popular leading lady Leatrice Joy was copacetically teamed with "fading star" Charles Ray in Nobody's Widow. After a...
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Roxanna Smith
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1927
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One of the few surviving films of Leatrice Joy, the wife of screen heartthrob John Gilbert, The Clinging Vine is a typically...
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Antoinette Allen
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1926
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If Eve's Leaves has the "look" of a Cecil B. DeMille production, it's because DeMille himself functioned as producer. Salty...
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1926
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This picture banked on the publicity surrounding the excavation of King Tut's tomb and contained a weak copy of the classic...
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1926
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Though For Alimony Only was technically a Cecil B. DeMille production, it was directed by DeMille's less-flamboyant brother...
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Mary Martin Williams
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1926
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Fifi
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1925
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Judy Nichols (Leatrice Joy), a poor girl from Chicago, has decided she cannot marry without money. Her sweetheart, Ronald...
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Judy Nichols
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1925
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Under the supervision of Cecil B. DeMille, character actor Alan Hale handled the directing chores in Wedding Song. DeMille...
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Beatrice Glynn
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1925
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Leatrice Joy has a dual role, as Gwynne Evans, a restless young wife who longs to go on the stage, and as lookalike actress...
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Eva Graham,Gwynne Evans
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1924
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With a racy title and a South Seas backdrop, producer Thomas Ince put together a solid box-office picture, even if it wasn't...
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Helen Canfield
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1924
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Ann Land
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1924
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After a promising start (not to mention a really good cast), this stylish society drama gets bogged down in overwrought...
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Edith McBride
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1923
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Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45...
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1923
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Leatrice Joy outshines the trite material and the rest of the cast in this Paramount release. Although it was adapted from...
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Lisa Coburn
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1923
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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Cecil B. DeMille was busy developing Leatrice Joy into a glamorous star a la Gloria Swanson when she was loaned out to...
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Minnie
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1923
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Louisiana-born Leatrice Joy plays Chinese princess Taou Yuen in Java Head. To save himself from being executed in a gruesome...
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Taou Yuen
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1923
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Lydia Thorne
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1922
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Leatrice Joy was just starting her association with Paramount and was not yet a star when she played Thomas Meighan's love...
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Rita Pring
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1922
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1922
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Thomas Meighan and Leatrice Joy star in this slight but amusing comedy-melodrama; they would appear together again later in...
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Sally Lockwood
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1922
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Even with its share of sumptuous sets and domestic mixups, this comedy-drama was not typical for director Cecil B. DeMille....
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Iris Van Suydam, Society Girl
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1922
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This drama was director George Loane Tucker's last film; in fact his health was failing as he completed it. Too bad the maker...
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Barbara
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1921
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Before he was known as "the man of a thousand faces," Lon Chaney had already become famous for portraying underworld...
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Georgia Rodman
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1921
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Leatrice Joy and Richard Dix play an ambitious couple in this domestic drama. John and Katherine Colby (Dix and Joy) decide...
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Katherine Colby
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1921
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This is one of a number of silent pictures in which a young American is raised as a Chinese girl, and even though she has no...
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Sui Sen
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1921
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Based on a story by Gouverneur Morris, this drama involves a group of terrorists whose motive is to do away with capitalists...
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1921
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Bunty Pulls the Strings was adapted from the immensely popular stage farce by Graham Moffat. Leatrice Joy stars as a Scottish...
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Bunty
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1921
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When Hannibal Pillsbury (David Butler) loses his job as cook at a lumber camp, he goes down to New York's Greenwich Village...
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1920
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This film was adapted from a well-known novel by Sir Gilbert Parker. Charley Steele (Bert Lytell) is a hard-drinking lawyer...
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1920
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This picture was based on the novel Dabney Todd by F.N. Westcott, and it was one of Leatrice Joy's better pre-Cecil B....
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1920
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At the time William Farnum made this adventure film, he was near the peak of his stardom. After a wild, drunken night,...
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1919
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Discovering that his wife has been unfaithful, doctor John Stedman (Harry T. Morey crawls into a bottle an ends up on skid...
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1918
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Harold Chester Winthrop Gordon (J. Warren Kerrigan) wakes up one afternoon to discover that because of his spendthrift ways,...
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1918
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Louise Glaum, who outside of Theda Bara was perhaps the screen's most popular "vamp," headed the cast of Shackled. Glaum was...
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1918
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Knowing a good thing when they had one, Universal continued to team J. Warren Kerrigan and Lois Wilson in such five-reel...
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1918
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The title of this emotionally supercharged melodrama could just as well have been "Deadlock." Low-born Marjery Harding...
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1918
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This two-reel Billy West comedy should not be confused with the Fox drama of the same name which was also released in 1917....
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1917
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The title may have been designed to cash in on the success of Griffith's Birth of a Nation (wherein the Ku Klux Klan were the...
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1917
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1917
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