This concert and interview documentary features the racy wit of Canada and the U.S.'s most popular female comedians,...
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1991
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When Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid (based on a novel by Edith Wharton) won the 1934-1935 Pulitzer Prize, the selection was...
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1939
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Down on the Farm was yet another entry in the seemingly endless saga of the Jones Family. The plot is set in motion when the...
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Aunt Ida
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1938
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This musical comedy is based on a modestly successful Broadway play and stars Humphrey Bogart as wrestling promoter Ed Hatch....
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Sadie Horn
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1938
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A lovely stenographer, tired of men falling all over her, tries to make herself homely in this comedy. With her horn rim...
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1937
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Based on the 1935 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, First Lady is not, as might be assumed, the story...
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Mrs. Greevey
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1937
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A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All...
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1937
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Merry-Go-Round of 1938 was the first (and last) of a proposed series of films spotlighting top Broadway talent. Three...
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1937
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The Warner Bros. musicals began running out of gas in the late 1930s, yielding such lukewarm efforts as Ready, Willing and...
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Clara Heineman
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1937
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Doughnuts and Society is the first of several attempts by Republic Pictures to create a new screen team comparable to MGM's...
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Kate Flannagan
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1936
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In this drama, the big city wife of a small town doctor learns a valuable lesson as she struggles to adapt to rural life. ~...
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1936
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In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed...
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Mrs. Torrent
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1936
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1936
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Bad Boy Eddie Nolan (James Dunn) spends more time in the poolroom than he does looking for work. Even so, Sally Larkin...
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Mrs. Harris
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1935
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In this lively comedy, a humble Italian barber wins the Irish sweepstakes. Unfortunately, he has misplaced the ticket....
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Nora Tomasello
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1935
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S. S. Van Dine's intelligent, insufferable amateur sleuth Philo Vance is the protagonist of The Casino Murder Case....
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1935
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A tuneful taxi driver secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer in this musical comedy. One day he...
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Mrs. Twitchell
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1935
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Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris'...
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1934
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Charles Boyer played his first major Hollywood role (and gets to sing in the bargain!) in the oddball musical romance...
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Miss Opitz
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1934
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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Amelia Cruikshank (June Clyde) doesn't know what real trouble is until she inherits her dad's auto-manufacturing business....
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Daisy Joy
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1932
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1932
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In this murder mystery, everyone around a murdered movie producer is a suspect, including his girl friend. Most of those...
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Lulu Potts
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1932
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Forbidden Adventure is the British title of the American film comedy Newly Rich. Edna May Oliver was borrowed from RKO by...
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Maggie Tiffany
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1931
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1931
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MGM had hopes of turning Metropolitan opera singer Lawrence Tibbett into a movie star, but Cuban Love Song brought this...
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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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Fanny Smithers
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1931
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When European princess Lee comes back to her Midwestern hometown, she is thought to be a seamstress and goes along with the...
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1931
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In this sweet comedy, a meek and clumsy employee of a large firm is filled with useful ideas, but is too shy to present...
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Agatha Hathaway
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1930
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This early musical was filmed in color and centers upon the love affair between a young composer and the woman he wants to...
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Gretl
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1930
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A young woman stands to inherit a million bucks in this comedy. The deal is thus: her aunts will give her a cool million if...
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Aunt Sarah Harper
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1930
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Legendary Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who was capable of reducing audiences to paroxysms of helpless laughter by telling them...
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Frankie, "The Princess"
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1930
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A newlywed countess is asked to make a tremendous sacrifice for her husband and herself in this musical comedy-drama. Count...
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Teresa
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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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Hortense
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1930
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In this frothy musical, a lovely young woman is wooed by two men. One of them meets her father's approval so it is only...
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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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Sue Smith
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1930
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This version of Shakespeare's most famous love story is set in Scarsdale, New York. This time, the heroine comes from an old...
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Mrs. Granger
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1930
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After literally inventing the movie musical with The Jazz Singer, Warner Bros. purchased the motion picture rights to the...
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Susan
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1929
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This early talkie antique is a backstage musical from Warner Bros. The plot involves the out-of-town tryout of a new musical...
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Sarah
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1929
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Blonde Broadway dancer Marie Saxon came to the screen in 1929 courtesy of Columbia Pictures, who starred her opposite popular...
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June
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1929
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In this adventure set in South America, the captain of a yacht moored there is really a fugitive criminal. The passengers...
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Mrs. Fleming
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1929
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Ma Martin
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1929
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In this college romp, a free-spirited aunt decides to use a $10,000 insurance settlement to send her niece to college. She...
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Aunt Kate
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1929
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In this curious film, a knickknack collector falls in love with the daughter of a jewel collector. When a rare stone is...
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1929
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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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1928
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1928
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A poor street cleaner inherits a fortune in this farce, which came complete with a music score and sound effects. According...
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1928
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Aunt Katie
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1928
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Lena Krausmeyer
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1928
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In this broad comedy, Clyde Jones (Clyde Cook) and "Terrible Bill" McGovern (William Demarest) are a pair of streetcar...
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1928
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Corinne Griffith stars in this 1928 remake of the 1922 melodrama Outcast. Both films were based on a play by Hubert Henry...
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Mable
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1928
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Mrs. Elvery
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1928
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Tillie
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1928
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Directed by a young Michael Curtiz, this Warner Bros. epic had aspirations of becoming another Intolerance (1916). In the...
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Hilda/Tavern maid
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1928
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It would seem that Warner Bros. was trying to develop hoydenish Louise Fazenda and diminutive Clyde Cook into a screen team,...
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Cynthia Botts
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1927
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Susan Martin
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1927
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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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Mrs. Ma Brander
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1927
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The Gay Old Bird in this silent Warner Bros. programmer is Louise Fazenda, cast as ugly-duckling maidservant Sisseretta...
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Sisseretta Simpkins
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1927
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This lavish adaptation of Victor Herbert's operetta The Red Mill proved to be one of Marion Davies' most delightful and...
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Gretchen
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1927
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Laundry Girl
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1927
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Hardly an important film, Finger Prints pleased the crowd with its heady combination of slapstick comedy and old-dark-house...
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1927
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In the tradition of the venerable stage comedy The Gold Diggers, Footloose Widows zeroes in on two girls who hope to land...
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Flo
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1926
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Lady of the Harem was based on Hassan, a play by James McElroy Flecker. It all begins when the Caliph of Kornassah (Sojin)...
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Yasmin
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1926
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Ladies at Play was based on Loose Ankles, a stage comedy by Sam Janney. Heroine Ann Harper is thrilled to discover that she...
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Aunt Katherine
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1926
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In this romantic silent adventure, a beautiful heiress goes to California for a visit and while there learns that her New...
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Mazie Raleigh
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1926
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Don Marquis' bucolic stage comedy-drama The Old Soak was first brought to the screen in 1926. Jean Hersholt plays the title...
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1926
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1926
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Long believed lost, the silent thriller-chiller The Bat finally resurfaced in the mid-1970s and proved well-worth the wait....
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Lizzie Allen, the Maid
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1926
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Sara Lavin
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1926
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One of the final films bearing the Vitagraph stamp before that company was completely absorbed by Warner Bros., this silent...
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Jennie Tibbs
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1925
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Once he attained full stardom, silk-hatted comedian Raymond Griffith was rushed into several inexpensive Paramount vehicles....
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Carmen
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1925
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This ordinary romantic programmer starred Universal regulars Norman Kerry and Virginia Valli. Linnie Randall, a shopgirl...
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Stella Kelly
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1925
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During the mid-'20s, Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller starred together in a number of pleasantly entertaining comedy-dramas...
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Dolly
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1925
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When Dick Tyler (Conrad Nagel) becomes a partner in the firm of Knight and Tyler, he marries his sweetheart, Doris...
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Flora
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1925
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Cookie Dale
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1925
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This mystery was based on a novel written by 20 popular authors, each of whom contributed a chapter. The point of each...
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"Sweetie"
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1925
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1925
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Forever forced to take a back seat to her pretty, popular younger sister Pauline Garon, Irene Rich manages to land handsome...
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Hilda
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1925
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Centering a story on the dilemmas of a "modern business woman" seemed like a fine idea in 1924, so Rupert Hughes (whose...
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1924
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1924
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Based on a play by Owen Davis, Lighthouse By the Sea top-bills Warner Bros.' most successful male star of 1924: dauntless...
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Flora Gale
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1924
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A trained seal stole the limelight in this silent farce produced by Thomas H. Ince. Sydney Chaplin, brother of Charlie,...
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1924
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This picture was adapted from a popular musical comedy. Colonel Dodge is a widower who enjoys his single status. After his...
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1924
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Irene Rich was one of Warner Bros.' new stars when she made this drama. Poverty-stricken singer Carol Drayton (Rich) attempts...
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Rose
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1924
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Darius Carpenter (Frank Currier) prides respectability above all else, and he's not thrilled when his son, Charles...
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Deborah Carpenter
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1924
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This epic covers all of Lincoln's life. His birth in a blizzard; his boyhood (depicted by Danny Hey as young Lincoln); his...
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1924
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This light comedy featured an "all-star cast" that really did contain some of the better also-rans of the silent era....
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1923
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This was the second silent version of the oft-filmed Rex Beach novel (made three more times in the sound era). Roy Glennister...
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1923
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The independently produced The Fog was adapted from a popular novel by William Dudley Pelly. Idealistic young Nathan Forge...
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Millie Richards
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1923
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This clever comedy-drama was based on the famed stage play by Avery Hopwood. All the actors gave enjoyable performances, even...
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Mabel Munroe
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1923
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A young and still inexperienced Norma Shearer was originally cast in the lead role of Myra Hastings in this society drama --...
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1923
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For this tale of old California, producer Benjamin F. Zeidman put together an all-star cast. The governor of California...
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1923
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Musical comedy star Raymond Hitchcock portrayed the character of Dr. Arbutus Budd both on stage and on screen. The only...
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Cremo Panatella, his daughter
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1922
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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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1922
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1920
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1920
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1920
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1919
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As early as 1919, Russian Communists (then known as Bolsheviks) were convenient movie villains. This heavy-handed comedy uses...
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1919
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1918
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This fast-moving Keystone comedy was directed by the talented F. Richard Jones. A flirtatious manicurist (Louise Fazenda)...
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1916
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This anthology is comprised of several short chucklers from the King of Slapstick comedy Mack Sennett. These shorts feature...
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1916
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1915
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1915
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1915
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1915
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Having inaugurated his association with Triangle Films with the 4-reel My Valet, comedy producer Mack Sennett quickly...
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1915
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1913
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