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Morgan Andrews
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1934
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Usually consigned to the supporting cast, eccentric comic actress ZaSu Pitts was occasionally rewarded with a leading role....
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B.J. Somers
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1934
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1934
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1933
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When a patient dies of heart failure, society doctor Michael Travers (Lew Cody), takes an interest in her 14-year-old...
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Dr. Michael Travers
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1933
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This drama chronicles the devoted love of a woman who tries to reform her lover, a black marketeer with a compulsive...
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Labela
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1933
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A goodly portion of this boxing drama was filmed on location at the real-life Madison Square Garden. Jack Oakie stars as...
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1932
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On something of a "literary binge" in the early 1930s, low-budget Monogram Pictures acquired the screen rights for the...
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M. Gaston Le Coq
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1932
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This "gimmick" murder mystery begins during a crucial college football game. Wally Clark (Johnny Mack Brown), the team's star...
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1932
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A rare "prestige" item from low-budget Allied Pictures, Parisian Romance boasts a screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert, of...
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Baron
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1932
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The Crusader was one of the earliest efforts from Majestic Pictures, for many years the most ambitious of the independent...
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Jimmie Dale
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1932
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In his first starring role, George Raft plays Nick Darrow, a fence convinced by the police to go undercover after his father...
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Kenneth Mason
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1932
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Joe Lehman
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1932
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In this murder mystery, everyone around a murdered movie producer is a suspect, including his girl friend. Most of those...
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Roger Morgan
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1932
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In this dramatic adventure a shady lady becomes a spy for the Austrian intelligence agency and ends up involved with a man...
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Capt. Otto von Lichstein
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1931
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Paul Wilcox
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1931
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In this crime drama, the writer of a Broadway newspaper column finds himself accused of murder after a showgirl, who had...
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George Howe
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1931
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A troubled production that suffered from both severe cuts and retakes under a different director (Edward H. Griffith), this...
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Lew
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1931
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A wealthy man's mistress abandons her luxurious life as a kept woman to be with the struggling Paris artist she has come to...
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Cardemon
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1931
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In this western, three disreputable cowboys begin pursuing a beautiful lady because she possesses a map to a valuable gold...
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Ace Beaudry
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1931
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Even before the Fox Studios merged with 20th Century Productions in 1935, the company was dedicated to the proposition that...
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William Marriott
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1931
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Contemporary viewers who go into Dishonored expecting a musty, dated espionage melodrama will be in for a surprise....
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Col. Kovrin
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1931
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Tip Scanlon
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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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Philip Lord
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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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Wally Weber
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1931
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The widow in question is wealthy Tamarind Brooks (Gloria Swanson), who flits from one man to another with the rapidity of a...
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Victor
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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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Robin Worthington
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1929
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Jim Lambert
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Wickedness Preferred was another of MGM's popular Lew Cody-Aileen Pringle star vehicles. This time around, Cody is cast as...
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Anthony Dare
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1928
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Philippe Levaux
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1927
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As jaunty as its title, On Ze Boulevard stars Lew Cody in his customary role of a Parisian roue, this time a headwaiter named...
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Gaston Pasqual
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1927
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'That's either your wife or your sister-in-law!" declares Gwen Lee to Aileen Pringle in the middle of Adam and Evil. This...
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Adam Trevelyan
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1927
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Carter Langford
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1927
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MGM's The Gay Deceiver was based on Toto, a stage play by Maurice Hennequin and Felix DuQuesnal. Lew Cody stars as Toto, a...
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1926
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Lew Cody stars as Tony Townsend, a top-hatted "international adventurer" who gets into a heap of trouble when he runs out of...
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Tony
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1926
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For this romantic drama, author and Hollywood tastemaker Elinor Glyn began with the premise that a woman does one of three...
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Sir Nicholas Thormonde
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1925
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Norma Shearer, who hadn't yet become the queen of the MGM lot (or won mogul Irving Thalberg as her husband), stars in this...
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David Coleman
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1925
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What would normally have been a standard society drama is brightened up by good direction courtesy of Robert Z. Leonard, and...
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Larry Brundage
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1925
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Norma Shearer stars in this routine light comedy. Katherine Emerson (Shearer) decides to leave her small hometown in Iowa to...
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Nicholas Wentworth
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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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Prince Carlos
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1925
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This mildly amusing comedy, based on a play by Cosmo Hamliton, was light on plot and just a touch racy (at least for the...
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John Rathburn
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1925
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After becoming an unwed mother, Joline Hofer (Viola Dana) is cast out of her father's house. After placing her baby in a...
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Count de Roche
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1924
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This famous old stage melodrama by Owen Davis is directed with a lot of spirit by Emmett J. Flynn and features a first rate...
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1924
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The wooden performances by a usually fine cast of players suggest that the script to this melodrama -- based on the poem The...
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Dangerous Dan McGrew
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1924
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This odd program drama seemed out of pace with the Roaring Twenties, and is only redeemed by its excellent cast. The Southern...
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Pietro Savori
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1924
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Even though director Ernst Lubitsch had only been in the U.S. for a little over a year, his soon-to-be-famous "touch" was...
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Edmund Lamont
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1924
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This is the second time Bayard Veiller's play made it to the silent screen (it would be made one more time in 1939 as a...
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Joe Garson
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1923
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1923
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Author Anthony Hope's sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda had been filmed once before, in 1915. But filmgoers were far more...
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Rupert of Hentzou
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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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This well-cast drama was based on the play by Samuel Shipman. When Marion Dorsey (Hope Hampton) is away in Europe, her...
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Guy Tarlow
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1923
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Written and directed by Rupert Hughes to take a jab at the inconsistent divorce laws (back in the days when marriages were...
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Roy Tappan
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1923
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Although the silent screen of the early '20s was inundated with dramas of the Northwest, many of them based on the novels of...
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Cpl. James Kent of the Royal Northwest Mounted
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1922
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Lew Cody leads an excellent cast in this colorful romance. While visiting France, Prince Rudolph (Cody) falls in love with a...
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King Rudolph
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1922
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While working as a stenographer, Ann Hunniwell (Norma Talmadge) only barely avoids being compromised by her boss's dissolute...
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Frank Devercaux
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1921
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Lew Cody plays yet another "male vamp" here -- Bruce Sands (Cody) is an artist who spends more time fooling around with his...
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1920
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1919
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Rosemary Theby is granted a divorce, only to discover that the decree is invalid in certain other states. Naturally, the plot...
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1919
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Although a New Yorker by birth, silent screen actress Edith Storey had appeared in westerns as early as 1910 when she was...
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1919
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Few directors were as successful in coaxing a convincing performance out of the beautiful but highly variable actress...
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1918
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1918
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Mickey was comedienne Mabel Normand's first full-length feature film and it was perhaps her finest moment. Normand is Mickey,...
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Reggie Drake
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1918
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This melodrama -- a classic tale of a woman wronged -- was based on a hit stage play by Sidney Toler. Marjorie North (Fritzi...
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1918
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This "lost" film from the Henry King canon would well be worth re-viewing. Gail Kane was cast as the wife of a prosecuting...
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1917
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Taking a brief break from her damsel-in-distress duties in the Pathe serial Neal of the Navy, former Ziegfeld Follies beauty...
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1915
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