Another of Thorne Smith's slyly naughty fantasy novels, Night Life of the Gods was transferred to the screen with reasonable...
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1935
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Loretta Young, who became known almost exclusively for playing sweet, wholesome roles, is kind of a shocker in this romantic...
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1934
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Katharine Hepburn won her first Oscar for her portrayal of Eva Lovelace, a small-town community-theatre actress who comes to...
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1933
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"I'm the finest woman who walked the streets," declares bejeweled, hip-swishing Lady Lou (Mae West) at the beginning of She...
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1933
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This drama was written by famed radio announcer Walter Winchell. It chronicles the tragic love between a racketeer and a...
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1933
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Zoë Akins' archetypal "gold-digger" stage comedy The Greeks Had a Word for It was transferred to the screen in 1933, with the...
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Director, Boris Feldman
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1932
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Edna May Oliver portrays a society dowager called for jury duty on a murder trial wherein a pretty young woman is accused of...
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1932
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What Price Hollywood is often referred to as the "first" version of the oft-filmed A Star is Born. While there are strong...
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Maximilian Carey
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1932
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In this melodrama, a sleazy plastic surgeon from Chicago bungles an operation and causes the amputation of his patient's...
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Director, Producer, Dr. Silas Brenton
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1932
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A wimpy king is forced to take responsibility for his little North Sea island kingdom after his iron-fisted wife goes on a...
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Director, The King
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1931
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A typical pre-code era comedy, Bachelor Apartment was the creation of its leading man, silent screen matinee-idol Lowell...
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Director, Wayne Carter
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1931
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In her final starring role, silent screen diva Mae Murray plays Dolly, a young gold digger who manages to trap a rich...
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1931
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1931
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Tom Austen
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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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Westy
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1930
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Director, Gene Fenmore
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1930
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In this musical comedy, based on a failed Broadway play, two American sailors are stationed in Naples to find a wooden...
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1930
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Reformed gold-digger Barbara Stanwyck falls in love with a womanizing and wealthy aspiring artist and tries to convince him...
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Bill Standish
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1930
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Two romances are included in this film. In the first, a freeloading novelist abandons his devoted girlfriend and latches...
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Geoffrey Clarke
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1930
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Director, Guy Tarlow
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1930
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A woman finds herself a victim of love in this drama. Her trouble begins when her husband falsely accuses her of having an...
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Norman Pollock
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1929
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This costume drama is the first all dialog film in which Barrymore appeared. He plays a mercenary who will serve anyone who...
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Leopold II
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1929
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Heart of a Follies Girl was based on a story by Adela Rogers St. John, but one would never know it. The cliché-ridden story...
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Rogers Winthrop
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1928
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Raised in a convent, pretty young heiress Mara (Josephine Boro) has been slated from birth to wed Russian officer Ivan Orloff...
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Ivan Orloff
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1928
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In her last silent film, Norma Shearer plays Dolly, aka Angel Face, a young woman engaged in blackmailing rich libertines....
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Bradley
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1928
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Greville Sartoris
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1928
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In his later interviews, director Allan Dwan seldom had anything to say about his 1928 opus Whip Woman -- and who could blame...
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The Baron
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1928
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Having worn out his welcome in country-bumpkin roles, silent film star Charles Ray made an effort to re-establish himself in...
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Henry Von Glessing
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1928
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The confident direction of Allan Dwan transformed The Mad Hour into something more than a mere "soap opera." Based on a novel...
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Joe Mack
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1928
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Henry Legrand
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1928
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Ernest Drake
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1927
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Although the plot to this comedy seems forced and unnatural (even for a farce), it does have a stellar cast. Even the smaller...
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1927
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Eugene Foster
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1926
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Aileen Pringle tackles a dual role in the comedy actioner Wilderness Woman. Actually, both heroines -- hoydenish Junie and...
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Alan Burkett
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1926
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Louis J. Gasnier, whose directorial technique suffered a case of arrested development sometime in 1912, wielded the megaphone...
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Norman Travers
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1926
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Feodor
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1926
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It's hard to determine who plays the title role in The Love Toy, though chances are the designation refers to the regal...
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Peter Remsen
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1926
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Considering how unsympathetic Lowell Sherman's character was, this melodrama about Parisian high life made for questionable...
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Michael Lyev Yervedoff
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1925
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This drama would have fared better as light comedy. Betty Powell (Helene Chadwick) senses that she and her husband, Robert...
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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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Louis XV
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1924
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After minor film star Hope Hampton married her producer, Jules Brulatour, she went into semi-retirement. This independently...
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Warren Carr
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1924
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Douglas Kenyon (Elliott Dexter) is a confused bank clerk who wakes up the morning after a party to find chorus girl Marcia...
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Horace Fleming
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1924
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While this theatrical drama is based on the clichéd premise of a country girl coming to the big city, it offers some colorful...
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Randall Sherrill
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1923
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Writer Jack Boyle created a timely adventure for the character of Boston Blackie Dawson in this mystery (at least it was...
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Count Orloff
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1922
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Back in 1922, grand larceny meant theft of anything more than 50 dollars. In this tale of domestic turmoil, however, it...
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Barry Clive
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1922
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In silent films, few actresses played more long-suffering roles than Clara Kimball Young. By the time this picture came out,...
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1921
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This comedy-drama marked Mabel Normand's return to producer Mack Sennett after making a number of mediocre films for Samuel...
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1921
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A well-cast Mae Murray gets to show off some of her famous dance steps in this picture. The beautiful Lillian Drake (Murray)...
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Creighton Howard
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1921
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Norma Talmadge has a dual role in this silent film, based on a play by Arthur Goodrich. She plays both a rich wife and a poor...
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1920
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Former ingenue Alice Brady took her first step towards the dizzy society matrons she'd play in the talkie era in the 1920...
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1920
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"I'm not a bad businessman", filmmaker D.W. Griffith once protested, "Honestly I'm not!" Yet industryites were certain that...
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Lennox Sanderson
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1920
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G.M. Anderson -- aka "Broncho Billy" -- took time off from his administrative duties as co-owner of Essanay studios to direct...
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1916
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Partially filmed on-location in the Bahamas, Always in the Way was the first of six Mary Miles Minter pictures produced by...
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1915
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As a rule, Pauline Frederick was better than her material in her Famous Players vehicles of the pre-1920 era, and Sold was...
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1915
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1914
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