This low-budget musical drama is based on the famous song and tells the story of Frankie, a cat-house singer (famed singer...
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1936
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A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip...
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1934
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Frankie Arnette
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1934
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Mrs. McIntosh
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1933
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There can never be Too Much Harmony in a Bing Crosby picture, not even in a bucolic backstage musical like this. Crosby plays...
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1933
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Margaret Hughes (Claudette Colbert) returns from a trip abroad to discover that her sweetheart, crusading attorney David...
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Claire Foster
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1932
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A remarkably ambitious endeavor from low-budget World Wide Studios, Those We Love was adapted by F. Hugh Herbert from a play...
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Valerie
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1932
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The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop of this costume epic that centers around a young nobleman who, with his maid,...
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Vera
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1932
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In this romance, an aspiring writer encounters a wealthy publisher who gives him an advance on the first two chapters of his...
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Polly Griscom
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1931
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In this youthful comedy, a child genius has fun getting her cousin into trouble. The bright girl's parents take her and her...
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The Princess
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1931
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Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title...
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Helen Riley
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1931
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In this drama, a twice married woman tries one more time with number three. Unfortunately, her wedding is suddenly halted...
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Mrs. Jackie Millet
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1931
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An eerie early-talkie mystery, Murder by the Clock spends most of its time in a cemetery. The matriarch (Blanche Frederici)...
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Laura Endicott
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1931
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Samuel Goldwyn attempted to turn British operetta star Evelyn Laye into another Jeanette MacDonald with this cardboard...
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Fritzi Vyez
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1931
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This offbeat WWI drama concentrates not on Men in War (there are in fact no men in the picture!), but on their women. The...
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Lil Wheeler
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1931
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Kay Francis and Lilyan Tashman portray what used to be euphemistically labelled "good time girls". They work the convention...
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Marie Bailey
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1931
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In this drama, a macho ironworker and his equally tough friend decide to leave New Orleans to work as beam-walkers on a New...
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Lynn Crawford
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1930
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Cicily
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1930
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In this faithful adaptation of the popular 1925 Broadway hit musical, a Bible salesman helps three women with their troubles...
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Lucille
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1930
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Whatever rapport comedian Frank Fay enjoyed with Broadway audiences invariably evaporated when he appeared on film. In The...
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Sylvaine
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1930
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In this musical, adapted from the earlier Musical Present Arms, a Marine private falls in love with a socialite and is...
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Edna
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1930
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The rise and fall of a popular entertainer provides the basis of this musical drama. Harry Raymond (played by nightclub...
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1930
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Eleanor
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1929
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The Lone Wolf, the gentleman thief created by Louis Joseph Vance, made his talking-picture debut in Columbia's The Lone...
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Velma
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1929
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Chorus girl Sally O'Neil (Teena Johnson) may be "hard-boiled," but she's no golddigger. Thus, when the father of her wealthy...
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Minnie
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1929
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Tired of his sedentary postwar existence, Col. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Colman) offers his services as adventurer for...
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Errna Peterson
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1929
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Terrified at the prospect of making her talking-picture debut, silent-screen queen Norma Talmadge spent several months taking...
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Peggy
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1929
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In this well-executed courtroom drama, a Broadway chorine is accused of stabbing her wealthy boy friend to death. The girl...
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Dagmar Lorne
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1929
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In this moving drama, a young woman is forced to take care of her many brothers and sisters while their wealthy parents live...
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Joyce Wheater
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1929
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Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with...
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Mrs. Renov
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1928
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1928
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George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife was given three screen treatments by Hollywood. The first of these...
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1928
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Derelys Devore
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1928
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Kay Sears
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1928
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Alice Day stars as Phyllis of the Follies in this standard backstage yarn. As a favor to her old chorus pal Mrs. Dexter...
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Mrs. Dexter
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1928
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Though Will Rogers was still packing 'em in on Broadway, he was considered a Hollywood has-been when he starred in the...
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1927
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The "stolen bride" of the title is Sari (Billie Dove), a Hungarian countess. During WWI, Sari falls in love with Franz Pless...
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Ilona Taznadi
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1927
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The same year H.B. Warner portrayed Jesus Christ in The King of Kings, he let down his hair in the drawing-room comedy French...
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Peggy Nash
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1927
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Based on a story which originally appeared in the pages of Liberty magazine, Prince of Headwaiters stars Lewis Stone as the...
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Mae Morin
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1927
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This was the most popular of the many silent adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' famous story of a courtesan who finds true love...
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Olympe
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1927
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The Carters (Irene Rich and Huntley Gordon), a nouveau riche couple from Peoria, Illinois, decide to take a trip to Europe in...
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Suzanne
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1927
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Love's Blindness was another bit of hothouse exotica from romance novelist and self-appointed social arbiter Madame Elinor...
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Alice, Duchess of Lincolnwood
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1926
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Georgette Lalle
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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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Narcissa Williams
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1926
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Gaunt, aristocratic-looking character-actor H.B. Warner was slightly miscast as author Frank Hamilton Spearman's popular...
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Marion Sinclair
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1926
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Skyrocket was a vehicle for non-actress Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a former Ziegfeld dancer who managed to get herself into the...
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1926
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One of a cycle of late-1920s films dealing with the Russian Revolution, Siberia stars Alma Rubens as idealistic Russian...
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1926
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When Arthur Randall (Owen Moore) becomes a success, his ex-wife, Laura (Lilyan Tashman), decides she wants him back. She...
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Laura Randall
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1925
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This comedy-drama about the Follies was written by veteran newspaper reporter and "sob sister" Adela Rogers St. John. Maggie...
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Selma Larson
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1925
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Mrs. Leslie
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1925
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Mary Roberts Rinehart's story When a Man Marries was made into a successful play, Tumble In, by Avery Hopwood. Biograph...
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Bella Wilson
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1925
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Edmund Lowe, who at the time was known for his urbane characterizations, seemed a bit miscast as a South Seas derelict in...
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1925
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Charles Ray's career had been declining for some time when he made this comedy-drama. Unfortunately, this attempt to return...
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Gwen Gould
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1925
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Mary Hale (Marguerite de la Motte) hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent (Lionel Barrymore) comes...
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Greta Verlaine
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1925
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Reginald Denny is Alec Dupree, a young but serious college professor who is hard at work on a book. He is interrupted by a...
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Fan Green
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1925
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Eve Quinn (Marie Prevost) is the classic, flirty, 1920s flapper. She easily outshines her quieter, more reserved half-sister,...
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Sybil Johnson
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1924
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Virginia Carter (Alma Rubens) has two suitors -- the carefree Robert Whitney (Frank Mayo) and the more restrained, but far...
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Edythe Stanley
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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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Although cowboy star Buck Jones plays a prizefighter in this drama, he's only getting in the ring to pay for a ranch -- which...
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Felicity Brown
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1924
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Although an executive at Paramount came up with the racy title for this comedy-drama, the plot came from a Saturday Evening...
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Pinkie Moran
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1924
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In spite of the fact that George V. Hobart's play was merely a trite and overdone story parading as a moralistic allegory, it...
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1921
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