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1995
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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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1930
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This melodrama is the last silent film of Lon Chaney. There is a soundtrack, but it only contains sound effects. The plot...
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Grumpy Anderson
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1929
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Star Lon Chaney Sr. and director Tod Browning bade adieu to the silent-movie era with 1929's Where East is East. His face...
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Tiger Haynes
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1929
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In this lurid Tod Browning melodrama, boasting a thoroughly creepy performance by Lon Chaney, Chaney plays Phroso, a...
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Flint
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1928
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Chuck Collins
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1928
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Lon Chaney Sr. eschews his trademarked makeup in the MGM crime melodrama While the City Sleeps. The plot is sparked by the...
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Dan
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1928
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Fifteen-year-old Loretta Young is 45-year-old Lon Chaney's winsome leading lady in Laugh, Clown, Laugh. Based on the...
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Tito Beppi
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1928
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One of the rare American films directed by Danish auteur Benjamin Christensen, Mockery stars Lon Chaney Sr. as a half-witted...
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Sergei
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1927
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Previously filmed in England in 1919, the barnstorming Harry Maurice Vernon-Harold Owen play Mr.Wu re-emerged as a Lon Chaney...
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Mr. Wu
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1927
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The most tantalizing of the "lost" Tod Browning films, London After Midnight has gained a near-legendary status in recent...
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Burke
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1927
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As a group, the silent-movie collaborations between director Tod Browning and star Lon Chaney hardly represent the best work...
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Alonzo
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1927
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This characteristically grim Lon Chaney/Tod Browning collaboration stars "The Man of a Thousand Faces" in two distinct...
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The Blackbird/The Bishop of Limehouse
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1926
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A tough-as-nails Marine sergeant sets about training a rag-tag group of boys into men. Though sporting a rough and gruff...
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Sgt. O'Hara
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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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Songapore Joe
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1926
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Lon Chaney stars as Erik, the Phantom, in what is probably his most famous and certainly his most horrifying role. Produced...
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The Phantom
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1925
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It's hard to tell at times whether director Roland West was aiming for laughs or thrills in The Monster, but this...
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Dr. Ziska
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1925
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Director Victor Sjostrom and stars Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer made an impressive team on He Who Gets Slapped. They came...
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Jan
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1925
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Although this is a silent production, it does include a color sequence. The story remains clear even in this condensed...
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1925
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Although Lon Chaney and director Tod Browning had made a couple of films together earlier in their careers, this unique...
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Prof. Echo/Granny O'Grady
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1925
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American engineer Robert Maury (Conway Tearle) travels to Paris with his wife, Elsie (Dorothy Mackaill). He leaves her there...
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Juan Serafin
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1924
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This compelling and exceptionally well-executed silent drama, from new MGM studio executives Irving Thalburg and producer...
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He Who Gets Slapped
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1924
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This tale of the high seas -- based on the novel by Ben Ames Williams -- is as much character study as it is adventure. It...
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Mark Shore
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1923
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This tale of a crook's reform takes place in the San Francisco of the early 1900s. Predictably, Lon Chaney plays a crook and...
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Wilse Dilling
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1923
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This second film version of the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris (the first was a Theda Bara vehicle,...
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Quasimodo
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1923
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When it reviewed this simple little drama, the trade paper The Film Daily remarked (rather awkwardly), "Ben Schulberg has...
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Yen Sin, "The Heathen"
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1922
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When he made this film, Lon Chaney's fame was already established, but he was only inches away from superstardom -- a few...
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Screenwriter, Gaspard
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1922
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Ostensibly a vehicle for Jackie Coogan, the 1922 Oliver Twist refuses to realign the Charles Dickens novel to accommodate the...
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Fagin
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1922
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Dr. Arthur Lamb
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1922
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Lon Chaney Sr. plays David Webster, an honest lawyer unjustly sentenced to a 15-year jail term. Upon his release, Webster...
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1922
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Based on the popular novel of rural life by Charles Felton Pidgin, this motion picture featured most of the star names that...
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Obadiah Strout
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1922
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Actress Hope Hampton and her producer, Jules Brulatour, were sort of a low-rent Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst --...
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Tony Pontelli
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1922
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Before he was known as "the man of a thousand faces," Lon Chaney had already become famous for portraying underworld...
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O'Rourke
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1921
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This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a story in Popular Magazine...
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1921
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Based on a story by Gouverneur Morris, this drama involves a group of terrorists whose motive is to do away with capitalists...
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1921
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One of the earliest of the "psychological" crime yarns, Outside the Law stars Priscilla Dean as "Silk Moll" Madden, daughter...
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1921
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This drama was "personally produced" by film star Betty Compson. Berenice Arnold (Compson) spends her time trying to keep her...
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1921
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This melodrama, made in 1920 but not released until 1923, was based on a novel, The Glory of Love, by "Pan." Henri Santados...
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Henri Santodos
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1920
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Treasure Island was the third of Fox's "Sunshine Kiddies" series, a group of literary adaptations starring child actors in...
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1920
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This melodrama boasts a solid cast, including Tully Marshall and Lon Chaney in supporting roles. After her father's death,...
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1920
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Among Lon Chaney's early villainous roles was Blizzard, the criminal mastermind of this melodrama set in San Francisco's...
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1920
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Celebrated prize fighter Jack Dempsey was a natural for serials, and industry leader Pathé dutifully cast him in this...
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1920
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Author James Oliver Curwood's tales of the Northwest were made into so many motion pictures that it seems like he alone is...
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1920
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During the silent era, the northwoods tales of James Oliver Curwood served as the basis for seemingly dozens upon dozens of...
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1919
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This tale of moonshiners in the Cumberland mountains was based on the novel by Charles Neville Buck. Turner Stacy, otherwise...
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1919
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This is yet another picture claiming to be something other than a war film in the days immediately post-World War I. Its...
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1919
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A group of crooks in New York City's Chinatown hear about an old hermit (Joseph J. Dowling) in a small upstate village who's...
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1919
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Axel Heyst (Jack Holt) is taught bitter lessons by his father -- that pity is contemptible and sympathy is useless. So the...
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1919
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Kate Carewe (Alma Rubens) lords over the dancehall in a lawless gold rush town. When preacher Ralph Bowen (Albert Roscoe)...
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1919
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Priscilla Dean has impressive support from Lon Chaney in this crime drama. Mary Stevens (Dean) is a thief of the slums. She...
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1919
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1918
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1918
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During World War I, Erich von Stroheim wasn't the only "man you loved to hate." Rupert Julian also proved pretty hateful as...
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1918
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Film star Dorothy Phillips courageously tackled one of the most complex roles ever written when she starred in this 1917...
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1918
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Having been misinformed that all French girls are morally suspect, American soldier David Kendall (Edwin August) is in for...
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1918
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1918
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By the mid-1920s, both Lon Chaney Sr. and Jack Mulhall were major film stars in their own right. Back in 1918, however, both...
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1918
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Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to...
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1918
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Cowboy star William S. Hart plays Jefferson "Riddle" Gawne, a man who really carries a grudge. When he finds his brother...
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1918
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Booted out of his own home by his snobbish father, wealthy playboy Laurence Percival Van Huyler (Franklin Farnum) is forced...
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1918
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Playboy Franklyn Farnum inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain (none...
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1917
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1917
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The drudgery of the working class is conveyed in this drama, directed by Ida May Park. Madge Garvey (Dorothy Phillips) works...
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1917
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1917
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In the Dark Ages of the silent era, when female movie characters were expecting, their pregnancies never, ever showed -- the...
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1917
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Jack Lane (William Stowell) has made an invention for photographing wild animals. It consists of a camera with a trigger --...
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1917
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This drama was based on the then-popular novel by Richard Hardin Davis. Billy Winthrop (Franklyn Farnum) is the idle son of...
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1917
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Triumph was adapted from a story by Samuel Hopkins Adams, originally serialized in the pages of Collier's magazine. Arriving...
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1917
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After several years of lending support to "bigger" Universal contract players, Lon Chaney Sr. was at last afforded star...
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1917
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Dorothy Phillips has a dual role in this picture, as pickpocket "Flash" Fan, and her sister, innocent shopgirl Mary Graham....
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1917
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1916
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The Grasp of Greed was a Hollywoodization of H. Rider Haggard's novel John Meeson's Will. En route to Australia, beautiful...
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1916
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Unbeknownst to his family, Temple (Mark Fenton) is a burglar. When the police come to arrest him, his son Dick (Lon Chaney)...
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1916
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The improbably but colorfully named Louise Lovely played the title role in Bluebird's Bobbie of the Ballet. Wealthy Jack...
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1916
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1916
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Louise Lovely stars in The Gilded Spider. The lovely Ms. Lovely plays a European dancing girl, driven to suicide by a callous...
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1916
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We meet Helen (Dorothy Phillips) in the middle of creating the past that will haunt her for the rest of the film -- she and...
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1916
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1916
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Joseph DeGrasse both directed and acted in this Northwoods melodrama. Priscilla Glenn (Dorothy Phillips) lives in a remote...
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1916
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Staid Lemuel Morewood (Digby Bell) is frustrated because neither of his boys are interested in learning how to run his...
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1915
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The second of six 2-reel melodramas directed by actor Lon Chaney for Universal's "Victor" brand in 1915, this film was yet...
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Director
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1915
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Director, Screenwriter
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1915
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While most of Vitagraph's biographical films were released as multiple-parters, Richelieu told its entire story within the...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several westerns starring...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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Henry Arthur Jones' popular stage drama The Lie was brought to the screen as a vehicle for Elsie Ferguson. The star plays...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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