Myrna Loy plays the glamorous member of a trio of jewel thieves. G-Man Spencer Tracy goes undercover to join the gang when it...
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1936
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Two Fisted is based on the James Gleason-Richard Taber stage play Is Zat So?, previously filmed under its original title in...
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1935
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The title doesn't refer to mosquitoes but to the amount of money that could be earned in the radio business of the 1930s....
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1935
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The Man From Monterey was the last of John Wayne's "B"-westerns for Warner Bros. The Duke plays U.S. army captain John...
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1933
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1933
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A brutal murder has been committed, and an eyewitness has placed wealthy philanthropist Jerome Breen (Lionel Atwill) at the...
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1933
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A whole slew of former silent-film favorites shows up in Mayfair's Secret Sinners. Dilettante songwriter Jack Mulhall falls...
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1933
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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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1932
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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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Adapted from a play by Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison, Subway Express takes place entirely on a single subway car. When a...
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1931
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Buck Jones falls in love with the sister of the outlaw he has just killed in this superior B-Western from independent...
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1931
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Last Dance was loosely based on the real-life story of a newspaper mogul who married a Broadway taxi dancer. For the purposes...
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1930
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No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the...
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1930
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Harold Lloyd's second talkie finds The Bespectacled One playing a shoe clerk in Honolulu. Harboring dreams of becoming an...
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Mrs. Tanner
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1930
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The venerable stage drama The World and His Wife formed the basis for the MGM production Lovers?. Ramon Novarro and...
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1927
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Colonel Tim McCoy's third western for MGM starred the former Indian sign language interpreter as an army captain facing...
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Duenno
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1927
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By Whose Hand? is a swift little thriller expertly assembled by up-and-coming Columbia Pictures. Ricardo Cortez stars as a...
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1927
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In the spirit of female stars both before and after her, 30-year-old Marion Davies plays a girl a decade younger than herself...
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Housekeeper
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1927
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Pioneering female director Nell Shipman was so little known to the big-city film critics that the trade magazine Variety's...
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1927
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This entertaining Charley Chase comedy features an old star (pretty Gladys Hulette, whose career was on its downslide) and an...
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1926
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Pert and pretty Sandy McNeill (Madge Bellamy) is strong-armed by her parents into marrying wealthy Ben Murillo (Bardson Bard...
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1926
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Lois Wilson stars in this drama, which was based on the novel by Clarence Buddington Kelland. Schoolteacher Carmel Lee...
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1925
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1925
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1925
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In her pre-Paramount days, Clara Bow was shoved into some pretty dismal pictures. This aimless drama was one of the worst....
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1925
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Zane Grey's 1925 story of the great Buffalo hunts became a sprawling silent Western produced by Paramount and starring the...
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1925
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Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte (Ricardo Cortez) travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his childhood...
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Mother Dufrayne
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1925
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1925
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1924
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This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove...
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1924
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The story to this sea melodrama was written by Byron Morgan. Morgan was best known for the fast-paced auto tales he wrote for...
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1924
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1923
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In this comedy romance, Claude Gillingwater plays a Southern Colonel who has the impossible task of keeping Viola Dana away...
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1923
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As might be expected, director Victor Fleming, who always did well with outdoorsy material, deftly handles this adaptation of...
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1923
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Although Lois Wilson was lovely to look at, some of her best work was in character roles. Here, the 28-year-old star plays...
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1923
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This fast-paced comedy came from the pen of husband and wife screenwriting team Anita Loos and John Emerson. After his...
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1922
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Paramount starred Agnes Ayers for the first time in this tragedy, adapted from the novel by Sir Gilbert Parker....
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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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Maria Tebbs
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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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1922
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Mary Miles Minter -- the most infamous of Mary Pickford imitators -- was at the peak of her popularity when this film was...
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1922
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Velma (Eva Novak) is unhappily married to Sam (Leonard Shumway), a user of demon alcohol and a notorious womanizer. He...
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1921
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Parental indiscretions break up a marriage in this rare surviving melodrama directed by King Vidor. Upon learning that her...
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1921
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Along with playing a dual role, Nell Shipman co-directed this adventure and wrote the screenplay -- not many women were...
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1921
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After his appearance in The Kid, little Jackie Coogan was obviously destined for stardom. For his first starring role, he was...
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1921
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Sarah De Morgan
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1921
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What was Paramount thinking when it cast glamorous Gloria Swanson as a drab South African wife in this plodding drama?...
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Tant Anna Vanderberg
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1921
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This light comedy, based on the French farce La Veglione by Alexandre Bisson and Albert Carre, should have been funnier than...
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1920
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Myles Calthorpe (Robert Warwick) is an English soldier of fortune who travels to South Africa. He goes to work for a pair of...
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1920
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Milly West (a miscast Ethel Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim...
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1920
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This amusing little comedy was based on the play by Ernest Denny. Anthony, Lord Crackenthorpe (Orral Humphrey), studies...
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1920
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An early directorial effort by King Vidor, The Jack Knife Man is based on a sentimental story by Ellis Parker Butler. Vidor...
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1920
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Stage and film star Marguerite Clark was Mary Pickford's biggest competition during the 1910s. Keep in mind that she was nine...
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1920
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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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Sylvester Tibble (Wallace Reid) comes to New York City to work at the jug business run by his uncle, Enoch Jones...
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1920
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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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1919
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Director King Vidor would always take the slightest excuse to champion the common man (or woman), and that he does with this...
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1919
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Louisiana Rogers (Vivian Martin) lives in the mountains of rural North Carolina with her father Lew (Noah Beery). Pa Rogers...
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1919
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The first of Cecil B. DeMille's series of sophisticated romantic comedy-dramas, Old Wives for New was adapted from a novel by...
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1918
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In this witty comedy -- an adaptation of Cyril Harcourt's play -- Constance Talmadge plays a writer who runs a lonely hearts...
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1918
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During World War I, every director made at least one film about the battles going on in Europe, even Cecil B. DeMille. These...
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1918
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Many film critics felt that Wallace Reid graduated from mere leading man to full-fledged star in his 1917 vehicle...
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1917
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1917
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This typically overbaked Cecil B. DeMille opus takes place off the seacoast of Brittany. While ambling along the beach,...
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1917
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A sweeping chronicle of the life and death of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orlean, this epic stands as one of director...
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1916
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Early in her screen career, former Follies sensation Mae Murray played a number of waif-like roles. Surprisingly, the formula...
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1916
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