The popular radio show was turned into a successful series of films in the 1940s starring Jimmy Lydon, and this live...
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1950
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1950
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1950
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Ronald Reagan plays a George Petty-type magazine illustrator who creates a "perfect girl" from a composite of the features of...
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1949
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A Clarence Buddington Kelland story was the source for the mildly farcical For Beauty's Sake. If he wants to inherit a...
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1941
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Edith Fellows and Billy Lee, two of Hollywood's most talented second-echelon child stars, are teamed in the Columbia...
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Miss Jamieson
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1940
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A genuine oddity, Life Returns was originally filmed by Universal Pictures in 1935. The story, concerning the efforts by...
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Dr. Louise Stone
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1939
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A plucky orphan girl runs away from the orphanage. Her only possession is her beloved Bible in which she has complete faith...
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1939
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To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in...
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1939
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The film is called Laughing at Trouble, but feisty female newspaper publisher Glory Bradford (Jane Darwell) doesn't waste...
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Alice Mathews
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1937
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Impressed by the popularity of radio program about the exploits of legendary safecracker Jimmy Valentine, advertising man...
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1936
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In this newspaper farce, an editor loses his voice and his job after he tires of being tormented by the practical jokes of...
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1936
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In this comedy, a woman lives with her recently impoverished family who would do anything to regain their former wealth and...
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Portia Prouty
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1935
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In this romance, a young woman falls in love with a bacteriologist who is married to a hot-tempered opera star. When his...
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Mona Trevor
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1935
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Heroic and crusty old Cappy Ricks takes on lobbyists who are trying to pass a law banning shingles on roofs to force...
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1935
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Miss Cartwright
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1935
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Born to Gamble was one of the more palatable efforts of M.H. Hoffman's poverty-row Liberty Films. The four protagonists are...
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Paula Mathews
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1935
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In a rare starring role, character comedian Edward Everett Horton is top-billed in Your Uncle Dudley. Horton is a...
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Christine Saunders
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1935
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This bottom-barrel quickie is elevated by its cast, comprised chiefly of old silent-film favorites. Ralph Graves stars as...
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Mrs. Purdy
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1934
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In this comedy, based on a popular play by George Kelly, an office clerk masquerades as a railroad magnate to impress a young...
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Clara Harling
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1934
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1934
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In this melodrama, a devoted father begins feeling unappreciated at home and so embarks upon a clandestine friendship with a...
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Sophie White
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1934
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A tough youth gang leader learns the true meaning of courage in this moving and thoughtful drama. He is the leader of a...
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1934
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Mary Blake
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1934
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In this drama, an immigrant barber becomes a US citizen and works hard to uphold his ideals of personal freedom and rights....
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Grace Chester
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1933
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Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed,...
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1933
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This remarkable early-talkie "disaster" flick was the first directorial effort of Felix E. Feist. An enormous tidal wave...
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Helen
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1933
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At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early...
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Mrs. McHale
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1933
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In this drama, set in 1929 when the stock market crashed, a selfish, money-grubbing wife ruins her husband, an accountant...
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1932
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An elderly gentleman finds himself in a difficult situation when he finds himself faced with becoming a burden on his...
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Nettie Minick
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1932
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A young boy from a broken home must choose between his real dad and his step-father in this drama. His real dad is...
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Mrs. Shumaker
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1932
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Gabby Denton (Edmund Lowe) is a slightly down-on-his-luck bettor with a taste for alcohol and the ladies. To tide himself...
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Nancy Evans
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1932
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A rather complicated but well-made little Poverty Row thriller, Drifting Souls features silent screen star Lois Wilson as...
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1932
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In this crime thriller, a suicidal writer is saved by a helpful newspaper editor who gives her a much-needed job. Later she...
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Nona Gould
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1932
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An early screen version of the oft-filmed tale of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Law and...
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1932
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Helen Joyce
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1932
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Sylvia Pearson
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1931
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In this three-hanky melodrama, an aspiring writer abandons his wife and five children to work more closely with a beautiful...
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Peggy Carter
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1931
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Richard Dix plays a working stiff who submits to an odd experiment. It is scientist Allen Kearns' contention that a man and a...
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Joan Bently
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1930
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Adapted from a stage melodrama by Charles Mere, Temptation (La Tentation) stars Claudia Victrix as saucy debutante Irene....
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1930
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In this romance, two sisters fall in love with the same man. He in turn, falls for and marries the most sophisticated of the...
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Cornelia Quinn
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1930
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The plays of Zoe Akins were so stilted and mannered that one critic referred to watching them as "the curse of an Akins...
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Fifi Sands
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1930
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A devoted valet takes a vacation in this lively drama. After 15 years of faithful service, he has earned it. He goes to...
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Mrs. Mallin
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1930
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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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Diane Holden
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1929
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One of those transitional Vitaphone productions with a few dialogue scenes and a canned music score, the underworld melodrama...
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1929
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The 1929 Wall Street crash was still two months in the future when Warner Bros.' Gamblers was released in the late summer of...
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Catherine Darwin
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1929
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In this drama, an impoverished girl defies her mother and marries her employer. When she becomes pregnant, her husband...
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Ruth Rutledge
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1929
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1928
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Lois Brewster
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1928
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Joan Wellman
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1928
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First filmed 1917, the Elmer Rice play On Trial was remade as a talkie eleven years later. The original stage version was...
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May Strickland
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1928
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Although this was only the second "Lone Wolf" film produced by Columbia, Bert Lytell had already played Louis Joseph Vance's...
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Eve de Montalais
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1927
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Winsome Lois Wilson stars as The Gingham Girl in this cinemadaptation of the popular musical comedy of the same name. Wilson...
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Mary Thompson
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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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Cynthia Grey
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1927
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Amateur thespians Fannie (Lois Wilson) and Johnny (Sam Hardy) team up to form a vaudeville act. Along the way, they decide to...
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Fanny Franchette
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1927
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Filmed on location in Manhattan, the 1927 silent New York explores themes later developed more fully in such films as...
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Marjorie Church
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1927
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This characteristically free-wheeling Greg LaCava production was based on The Man From Mexico, a play by Harry A. Douchet....
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Mary Corbin, "the Only Girl"
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1926
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This playful spoof on the film business featured several stars including Ben Lyon, Lois Wilson, and Blanche Sweet. John Hart...
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Mary Kelly
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1926
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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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Amy Fisher
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1926
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Daisy Buchanan
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1926
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Fred Prouty (Warner Baxter) and his wife, Nettie (Lois Wilson), are living happily until the day that his aged father (Luke...
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Nellie Prouty
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1925
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The Paramount team of Richard Dix and Lois Wilson starred in this top-notch silent western in which a Native American is the...
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Marion Warner
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1925
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This Cape Cod melodrama was based on a novel by Joseph C. Lincoln. Calvin Homer (Warner Baxter) expects to be promoted to...
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Norma Bartlett
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1925
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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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Carmel Lee
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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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Milly Fayre
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1925
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Thomas Meighan in a dual role, as well as the Irish locations -- including the Blarney Stone -- add interest to what would...
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Lady Gwendolyn
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1925
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Marion
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1924
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Patty Thomas
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1924
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The still photographs of this costume picture, showing Rudolph Valentino wearing foppish 18th century finery, are actually...
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Queen Marie of France
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1924
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It seems like the flashier Cecil B. DeMille made his films, the more intimate were those made by his older brother William C....
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Jane Crosby
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1924
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After breaking away from Paramount, the company he helped form in 1912, W. W. Hodkinson had to make do with tiny budgets and...
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1924
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North of 36 was conceived in the wake of the immensely popular Covered Wagon, right down to the casting of that earlier...
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Taisie Lockheart
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1924
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James Cruze revived the western genre and presented audiences with the first western epic in the spectacular 1923 film The...
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Molly Wingate
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1923
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In her autobiography, Pola Negri claims she felt dubious about playing the lead role in this exotic drama based on the novel...
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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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Carley Burch
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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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Edward Everett Horton, who was still new to film, was perfectly cast as the meek and mild English valet Ruggles in this...
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Kate Kenner
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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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Mrs. Stanley
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1923
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Leading lady Lois Wilson considered this fine western her favorite of six films she starred in opposite virile leading man...
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Ellen Jorth
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1923
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This farce from Paramount was loosely adapted from the play The Open Door by Oscar Blumenthal and Gustave Kadelberg. Arthur...
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Mabel Hoyt
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1922
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This lighthearted political satire marked the first time humorist George Ade wrote a story directly for the screen. The...
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Katherine Fendle, His Fiancee
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1922
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Evans, Her Maid
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1922
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This contrived and complicated tale of crooked politics would have been a poor vehicle for William Farnum if not for his...
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1922
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The quality of Wallace Reid's films were starting to slip, quite possibly because of his drug problems, and this comedy-drama...
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Lady Elizabeth
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1922
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Nora Fay
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1922
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Director William DeMille was stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place with this light comedy, based on the play by...
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Maggie Wylie
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1921
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For a silent screen star, Lois Wilson showed a truly charming lack of ego -- how many other beauty contest winners would be...
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Lulu Bett
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1921
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In contrast to the spectacles of his brother Cecil, William DeMille's directorial efforts tended more towards small, simple...
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Sylvia Hayes
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1921
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Jim Montgomery (Thomas Meighan) is the country mechanic who comes to New York to seek his fortune. The naive rube is talked...
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Molly Bryant
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1921
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This powerful drama, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Byron Morgan (who also adapted it for the screen), proved to...
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Dora Wade
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1921
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Chauffeur Tommy Trotter (Robert Warwick) is really Lord Eric Temple. He's one of a group of down-on-their-luck royals who are...
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1920
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This amusing comedy, based on the book by Earl Derr Biggers, is well cast, with Bryant Washburn and Lois Wilson in the lead...
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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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Lois Wilson was an up-and-comer when she supported Bryant Washburn in this light comedy. John Harlow (Washburn) wants to take...
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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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Wallace Reid plays one of his speed demon roles in this picture, which is based on the Saturday Evening Post story, "The...
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1920
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This farce started out as a stage play by Fred Jackson and was then made into a musical comedy (The Velvet Lady) before...
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1920
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Like many films of its era, It Pays to Advertise was based on a Broadway stage play. It showcased the talents of...
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1919
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1919
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1919
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Harold Chester Winthrop Gordon (J. Warren Kerrigan) wakes up one afternoon to discover that because of his spendthrift ways,...
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1918
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Although Henry Walthall's career went downhill after he stopped working with D.W. Griffith, occasionally he would appear in a...
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1918
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Hillaire Latour (J. Warren Kerrigan) is a French Canadian trapper who decides to become a lumberman when he sees the amounts...
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1918
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Jimmie Farrell (J. Warren Kerrigan) is a newly-rich Oklahoma oilman. He plays cards with gambler "Ace High" Burdette and...
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1918
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Knowing a good thing when they had one, Universal continued to team J. Warren Kerrigan and Lois Wilson in such five-reel...
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1918
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According to the Moving Picture World, this drama was meant as an expose of the "lax divorce system prevailing in certain...
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1917
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There were many clumsy aspects to this war film made by Universal. It takes place "somewhere in Europe," but makes no other...
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1917
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Inasmuch as J. Warren Kerrigan was (in the eyes of his female fans at least) the embodiment of virility, the actor was...
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1917
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August (Frank Whitson) and Hilda (Gretchen Lederer) travel from Europe to America to make money and get married. They find...
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1916
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Dumb Girl of Portici is famous today as the film in which Boris Karloff made his movie debut. This "fact" is open to debate:...
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1916
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Upon the death of her father, country girl Glory Moore (Frances Nelson) heads to the City to live with her aunt, Mrs....
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1916
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Pool of Flame was based on a novel by Louis Joseph Vance, a journeyman author best known for his detective hero The Lone...
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1916
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A standard Graustarkian romance, Son of the Immortals starred J. Warren Kerrigan as Prince Alexis Delgrade. Betrayed by his...
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1916
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The Beckoning Trail was one of several joint vehicles for veteran action hero J. Warren Kerrigan and up-and-coming ingenue...
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1916
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Though a spendthrift and a layabout, Lord Arthur Waring (J. Warren Kerrigan) is universally loved by his tenants. The same...
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1916
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1915
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