Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten) was the first of German director Wim Wenders' films to be lensed in part in the...
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1974
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Adhering to a formula that would later be popularized further in Grand Hotel, Transatlantic is one of the best of the...
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Judy Kramer
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1931
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An illusionist is performing his astounding tricks when an audience member is killed by another. This mystery chronicles the...
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Beverly Lane
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1931
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In this drama, a woman with dubious past finds herself blackmailed when she makes plans to marry a senator's son. She finds...
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Julia Cavanaugh
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1931
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Though silent star John Gilbert's talking pictures were habitual money-losers, the stubborn actor insisted that MGM honor his...
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Dot
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1931
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Alice Freil
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1930
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Diana
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1930
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In this romance, a young woman aspires to have a huge church wedding with all the trimmings, but first she must find the...
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Gwen Stewart
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1930
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Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love...
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Nora Meadows
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1930
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Irving Cummings was a good choice to direct this third Charlie Chan feature, the first to use sound, as he had previously...
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Eve Mannering
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1929
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In this college campus musical comedy from director James Tinling, the first film in which John Wayne received billing...
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Mary Brown
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1929
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An heiress Lois Moran heads to the United States from her Swiss boarding school. She begins an exciting life as a flapper...
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1929
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In this drama, an early talky, a horse race determines a woman's romantic fate. The trouble begins when she finds herself...
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1929
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A silent film save for a synchronized Movietone score, True Heaven is a WWI espionage yarn, tailored to the talents of he-man...
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Judith
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1929
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For 55 of its 63 minutes, Making the Grade is a silent picture; only the opening sequence and a brief "radio broadcast" scene...
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Lettie Ewing
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1929
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George O'Brien stars as George, a footloose sailor who adheres to a philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em." While on leave in...
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Lorette
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1928
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According to most sources, actress Lois Moran was the model for Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby....
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Priscilla Bowen
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1928
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Lois Moran stars as Joan Robinson, the chorus-girl daughter of blue-collar workers Ma and Pa Robinson (Edythe Chapman and...
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Joan Robinson
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1928
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Blindfold is a crime drama that gets off to a lively (if unbelievable) start when a dedicated cop deliberately gets himself...
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1928
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One of the first talkies, this film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous...
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Marjorie Cullen
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1928
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Violet Henley
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1927
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Helene Stanton
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1927
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The title character is world-famous lothario Norman Kerry, who has given up keeping track of all his female conquests. While...
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Betty Kennedy
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1927
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Whirlwind of Youth was taken (as far as possible, apparently) from Soundings, a novel by Hamilton Gibbs. Impulsive...
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Nancy Hawthorne
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1927
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Sylvia Fleming
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1926
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Having nothing whatever to do with the Rudyard Kipling poem, The Road to Mandalay is a typically bizarre collaboration...
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Joe's Daughter
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1926
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Prince of Tempters was adapted from The Ex-Duke a story by prolific author E. Phillips Oppenheim. The story focuses on two...
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Monica
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1926
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In this adaptation of a play by A. E. Thomas, Richard Barthelmess stars as Prince Rupert of Koronia, who becomes tired of...
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Linda Lee Stafford
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1926
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Padlocked began as a serial for Cosmopolitan magazine, written by Rex Beach. After only a couple of chapters were published,...
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Edith Gilbert
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1926
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The scene is New Orleans, during Mardi Gras week. The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren (Jack Mulhall),...
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Mary
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1926
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Originally released in 1926 in hand-tinted prints, for years this silent classic, based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello...
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Adrienne
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1925
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One of the silent era's most popular tearjerkers, this soapy melodrama was adapted by legendary screenwriter Frances Marion...
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Laurel Dallas
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1925
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1924
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