Hayseeds abound in this musical comedy, two star-struck hoboes hop what they think is a west-bound train that will land them...
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1967
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In this comedy, a scientist endeavors to turn into a caveman after drinking a secret formula. Instead he becomes a child. In...
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1938
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1937
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Produced by the Halperin Brothers, the folks responsible for the early-talkie horror classic White Zombie, Nation Aflame is...
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Mona Burtis
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1937
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The zany vaudeville comedy team of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson was still one year away from their smash Broadway hit...
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Mrs. Heath
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1936
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1936
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Catherine
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1935
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1935
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A pre-Charlie Chan Sidney Toler stars in Champagne for Breakfast as The Judge, a philosophical racetrack tout. Though...
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Natalie Morton
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1935
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Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's...
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1934
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Ex-convict Steve Nichols (Onslow Stevens) may be a free man, but it looks like he'll never be able to escape the onus of his...
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Mae
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1934
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Adapted by director Paul Sloan from the novel by Will James, Lone Cowboy is an "outdoors" epic tailored to the talents of...
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Eleanor Jones
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1934
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No relation to the 1949 20th Century-Fox melodrama of the same name, Columbia's 1934 Whirlpool stars Jack Holt as a shifty...
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Helen Morrison
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1934
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Like many Chesterfield-Invincible films of the era, In Love with Life is built around the talents of a prominent character --...
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Sharon
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1934
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In this romance, two travelling sign painters find themselves inspired by a young woman's lovely smile. Soon her face is...
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Sharon Hadley
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1933
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Police officer Tom Malone is the only honest man left who can salvage his crooked city after his partner is killed on his...
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1933
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In this drama, a bright young mill worker is left in charge of his late employer's estate. This causes many hard feelings...
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Janet Stillman
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1933
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In this melodrama, a sleazy plastic surgeon from Chicago bungles an operation and causes the amputation of his patient's...
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Georgia Rand
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1932
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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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Jane Bradford
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1932
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A multi-character drama set in a suburban neighborhood, The Night of June 13th takes place in four households. One of these...
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Trudie Morrow
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1932
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The concept of radio patrol cars was still brand-spanking new when this fast-moving programmer came off the Universal...
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Sue Kennedy
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1932
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In this war drama, a brave reporter tries to remain detached while covering the war in Shanghai. While there, he falls for...
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Julie March
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1932
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As directed by Norman Houston, this newsroom-themed melodrama from 1932 stars Walter Byron as an alcoholic reporter who...
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1932
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This thriller involves a shipboard murder, castaways on a desert island, another murder, a wild man, and the hapless hero...
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Connie Wayne
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1932
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This second of four film versions of Ralph Spence's stage comedy-melodrama The Gorilla stars legendary Broadway comedian...
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Alice Denby
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1931
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In this western, three rambunctious young cowboys head for the hills after spending a night painting a town red and...
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Judith Temple
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1931
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When European princess Lee comes back to her Midwestern hometown, she is thought to be a seamstress and goes along with the...
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1931
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A remake of the 1925 Lon Chaney melodrama of the same name, 1930's The Unholy Three makes several concessions to the newly...
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Rosie O'Grady
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1930
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Those Who Dance is not so much a film as a "class reunion" for several former silent-screen favorites. Monte Blue stars as...
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Nora Brady
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1930
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In this crime drama a reformed safecracker is pressured by his ex-cellmate to pull off one last job. The cellmate gives the...
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Mary Carlyle
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1930
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Jack Mulhall stars as Leonard Staunton, a businessman whose future is threatened by a trio of mysterious blackmailers. The...
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Jeanne Baldwin
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1930
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The first of two film versions of Fulton Oursler's domestic-conflict yarn, Second Wife stars Lila Lee as the bride of...
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Florence Wendell
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1930
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Despite what you might think by glancing at the title, The Argyle Case has nothing to do with socks. The film's plot is set...
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Mary Morgan
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1929
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In this early sound film, adapted from a play by Somerset Maugham, a WW I veteran is left crippled after a plane crash that...
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Stella Taylor
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1929
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Elinor
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1929
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A love triangle between two twin brothers and a lovely young woman provides the framework for this drama (it was the first...
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Katie Dean
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1929
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No, Richard Barthelmess doesn't don women's apparel in the 1929 talkie The Drag. Barthelmess plays a Vermont newspaper...
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1929
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To sophisticated filmgoers of 1929, the designation "queen of the nightclubs" could mean only one person: Colorful Manhattan...
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Bee Walters
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1929
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In this sad drama, a nightclub chanteuse gives up everything to have her daughter educated abroad. When her grown-up, highly...
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Sophie's Daughter Beth
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1929
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad. In love with...
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Margharita
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1929
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A rather muddled prize-fighting melodrama from low-budget company Gotham Productions, United States Smith featured former...
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Molly Malone
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1928
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In this low-budget romantic comedy, a beautiful model from Paris sets her sights on the heart of an American ex-lover and so...
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1928
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This easygoing service comedy stars Donald Keith in the title role. A tough topkick, Mulligan intends to make a "real man"...
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1928
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The "man in hobbles" (a reference to his unique trousers) is young professional photographer John Harron. Upon marrying...
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The Girl
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1928
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The Little Wild Girl is hoydenish French-Canadian lass Marie Celeste (Lila Lee). Assuming that her sweetheart Jules...
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1928
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Ostensibly based on pulp writer James Oliver Curwood, this minor silent Northwest melodrama featured Cornelius Keefe as a...
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1928
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In this melodrama, a wealthy girl decides to disguise herself and work as a laborer in her father's factory so she can be...
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Marion Dorsey
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1928
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From small-scale (and typically misnamed) Excellent Pictures, this minor silent melodrama featured handsome Bryant Washburn...
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Fola Dale
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1928
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Released as part of producer Trem Carr's "Famous Authors" series, this silent whodunit was based on a 1912 story by Mrs....
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Eugenie Bromley
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1928
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Rookie policeman Cornelius Keefe can't help but run afoul of his superiors. It isn't that Keefe is a screw-up, simply that he...
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1928
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Director James W. Horne, best known today for his Laurel and Hardy comedies, called the shots on the inexpensive "emotional"...
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Norma Davis
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1928
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This portentously (and pretentiously) titled Fox Studios release stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of...
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Elizabeth Glade
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1927
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Fascinating Youth was designed as a showcase for the winners of Paramount's Junior Star contest of 1926. Newcomer...
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1926
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Ruth Esterin
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1926
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The New Klondike was a satire of two ripe-for-plucking targets: The national baseball craze and the Florida "land boom" of...
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Evelyn Lane
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1926
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This melodrama, which starred Lila Lee, had quite a few names in the cast that were well known at the time but are largely...
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1925
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Thomas Meighan plays Tom Clark, who left his home town to make good -- and wound up as part owner of a hapless gas station....
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Ethel Harmon
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1925
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Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford (Thomas Meighan) marries Alice Rand (Lila Lee), the daughter of his boss, John...
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Alice Rand
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1925
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Helen Brand
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1924
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The off-screen husband-and-wife team of James Kirkwood and Lila Lee played just that in this silent crook melodrama from...
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Molly
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1924
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Mrs. Moreland
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1924
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Although this Rex Beach story was filmed before in 1916 as a "super-feature," seven years later it would become a routine...
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Chiquita
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1923
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Thomas Meighan was appropriately cast in this ocean-bound romance based on the novel A Light to Leeward by Peter B. Kyne....
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Mary Brent
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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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When wealthy Rockwood dies, he wills his fortune to his four grown children, providing they're all married by a certain date....
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louise Halliday
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1923
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Carmen
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1922
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This comedy-drama featured a wry story by humorist George Ade and a warm performance by the always likable Thomas Meighan....
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Mary Thorne
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1922
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Silent matinee idol Wallace Reid played a speed demon in quite a few popular light comedies for Paramount. Here he takes a...
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Barbara Teller
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1922
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This romantic adventure was based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. An old skipper, Captain Davis (George Fawcett), has...
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Ruth Attwater
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1922
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Although Wallace Reid stars in this picture (based on the comic opera by Richard Harding Davis), Walter Long just about...
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Juanita
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1922
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1922
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This quirky comedy with its mystical overtones was a departure for the down-to-earth Will Rogers. The story opens up with a...
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Molly McIntrye
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1922
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This jumbled light comedy was one of the last pictures featuring silent matinee idol Wallace Reid -- after being given...
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Maria Theresa
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1922
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Ella Klotz
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1921
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Because of the scandal that befell comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in 1921, his Paramount starring feature Gasoline Gus...
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1921
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Maurice Travers (Robert Gordon) attends college, funded by the sweat and blood of his widowed mother (Blanche Davenport). But...
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1921
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The star power of Wallace Reid kept the silent farce Charm School afloat. Auto salesman Reid inherits a school for proper...
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1921
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While Cecil B. DeMille busied himself with lavish sex comedies and garish historical melodramas, his director brother...
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Eileen
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1921
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Annabelle Landis
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1921
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Peggy Bruce
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1921
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The careful direction of William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil) brought fresh life to Cosmo Hamilton's all-too-typical story,...
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1920
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After directing him as the title character in Huckleberry Finn, William Desmond Taylor again used boy actor Lewis Sargent in...
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1920
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In this Pollyanna-ish story, Lila Lee plays Mary Lenox, who is orphaned when her parents die during a cholera epidemic in...
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Mary Lennox
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1919
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Douglas Fairbanks starred in the original Broadway production of James B. Fagan's Hawthorne of the USA, but Doug was too...
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1919
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Don't let that title fool you: Male and Female is really James M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, as interpreted by...
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Tweeny
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1919
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When her father, a lunch-wagon owner, dies suddenly, Jane Neill (Vivian Martin) pluckily takes charge of the family business,...
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1919
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