Though she certainly didn't need the money, silent film favorite Colleen Moore made a comeback bid during the 1933-34 film...
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1934
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In this melodrama with strong racist overtones, Clara Bow attempts to revive her failing career by playing a free-spirited...
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1932
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In this melodrama, a British aristocrat befriends a woman and hires her to begin distracting his son away from a conniving...
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1931
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In this comedy, a carefree carouser creates trouble for his cousin the chaperone as they go 'round the world. ~ Sandra...
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1931
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Paulette Vaile
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1931
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God's Gift to Women demonstrated conclusively that Warner Bros. would never make a movie star out of Broadway comedian...
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1931
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1931
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The widow in question is wealthy Tamarind Brooks (Gloria Swanson), who flits from one man to another with the rapidity of a...
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Valli
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1930
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In this crime drama, a down-on-his-luck attorney with connections to a diamond thief is framed for the thief's murder by the...
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Marcia
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1930
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Lawyer Wyn Huntley (Jack Mulhall) is a lion in the courtroom, but a lamb when it comes to women. In love with the beautiful...
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Eleanor Cartwright
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1930
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Mae
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1930
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Look up "suave and sophisticated" in the dictionary, and one might very well find a picture of Adolphe Menjou. In His Private...
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Henri Bergere
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1929
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In this mystery, a producer reopens a theater where five years before, a lead actor was killed on stage during a...
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1929
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This early talkie is the film that destroyed the career of popular silent leading lady Louise Brooks. A detective story, it...
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1929
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Gangster boss Egan (Sam Hardy) manages to beat a murder rap by framing his mistress Marion (Margaret Livingston) for the...
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Marian
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1929
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Popular silent-screen star Leatrice Joy made an adequate talking-picture debut in MGM's The Bellamy Trial. The film was based...
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Mimi Bellamy
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1929
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In one of his few film leading roles, dependable British character actor Holmes Herbert plays Peter Dwight, whose wife...
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Florence
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1929
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In this early, early talkie, a newspaper reporter convinces a judge to release an accused killer who used to be a colleague...
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Lillian Tracy
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1929
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In this drama, a junkman, Maurice Chevalier in his American film debut, rescues a drowning boy from the Seine. The boy's...
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1929
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In this comedy drama, a married man finds himself in philanderer's heaven when he gets involved with three local women....
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Nan Stoddard
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1929
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Myra Thornhill
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1929
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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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Olga
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1928
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This silent gangster tale centers on a scarred racketeer, ironically called Handsome Williams (Mitchell Lewis), who has been...
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1928
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The screenplay for Beware of Bachelors was credited to Mark Canfield, but it was penned pseudonymously by future movie mogul...
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1928
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The economical Columbia programmer A Woman's Way benefits from the presence of such pros as Margaret Livingston,...
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1928
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Banker John Caswell (Francis X. Bushman), a wealthy widower, decides to leave his scheming mistress Irene (Margaret...
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1928
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Owen Davis' 1898 barnstormer about a fun-loving socialite turned castaway on her former fiancee's South Seas island came to...
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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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1928
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One of the more palatable non-Frank Capra silent films from Columbia Pictures, The Apache is not a western. The title...
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Sonya
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1928
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The scene is Shanghai, where virginal missionary Pauline Garon finds herself the object of lust of the local Chinese crime...
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1927
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Former Broadway matinee idol Lou Tellegen tries to recapture his past magic in the 1927 potboiler Married Alive. Tellegan...
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Arny Duxbury
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1927
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Jobyna Ralston and Margaret Livingston play actresses touring with a "Topsy & Eva" act. In Chicago, they meet and flirt with...
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Dot Deane
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1927
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The dazzlingly gorgeous Billie Dove is appropriately cast as the title character in American Beauty. This is the story of...
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Mrs. Gillespie
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1927
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The "secret studio" is squirreled away somewhere in the artist's colony in Greenwich Village. It is kept a secret so that...
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1927
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One of many silent-movie satires of the "beauty salon" craze, Slaves of Beauty gets under way when chemist Leonard Jones...
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Goldie
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1927
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Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise represents the art of...
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The Woman from the City
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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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Yellowstone National Park was the setting for this delightful Tom Mix western that also featured a two-color Technicolor...
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Flora
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1926
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Vampy Margaret Livingston and stalwart Earl Foxe seem miscast in this farce comedy. Foxe plays a young hypochondriac who...
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1926
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This melodrama was based on the novel The Just and the Unjust by Vaughn Kester. District attorney John North (Harrison Ford)...
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1926
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1926
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Dot
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1926
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This mythical kingdom romance, based on The Lady From Longacre by Victor Bridge, is spiced up with a mystery angle. It wasn't...
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1925
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Esther Ralston, who plays a nice chorus girl in this comedy-drama, is upstaged by Margaret Livingston, who has a...
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1925
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Reginald Denny is Alec Dupree, a young but serious college professor who is hard at work on a book. He is interrupted by a...
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1925
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The drama opens with a prologue in which an innocent boy (Eddie Phillips) is sent to the electric chair and executed before...
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Mona Caldwell
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1925
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This drama was based on the play by Henry Wallace. Two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George O'Brien) and Roddy Dunton (Walter...
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1925
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This routine domestic drama was based on a stage play by Owen Davis. Jane Cornwall, a wealthy heiress (Virginia Valli),...
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Helene Newhall
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1925
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This tale of the Northwoods is yet another James Oliver Curwood story brought to the silver screen. Clive Grenfal (Walter...
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Mrs. Grenfel
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1925
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1925
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1925
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Vi Vanderwort
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1924
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The off-screen husband-and-wife team of James Kirkwood and Lila Lee played just that in this silent crook melodrama from...
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1924
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For a husband, Carol Pelham (Beverly Bayne) chooses hard-working Bob Hilton (Monte Blue) over the wealthy but idle Ted Lowe...
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1924
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When her latest show closes, Pat O'Brien (Margaret Livingston) returns home. The stable owned by her fiancé, Dan Mallory...
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Patricia O'Brien
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1924
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Pearl Foster
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1924
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The "shocking" (by 1923 standards) title to this picture was just a smokescreen -- in reality, it was merely a domestic soap...
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Gloria Guyne
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1923
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Lelia Dodson
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1921
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A naive Colorado rancher falls prey to a predatory female in this melodrama written and directed by former Chicago journalist...
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1921
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Billy Barton, a bank teller (Douglas MacLean), gets himself in a load of trouble when he takes responsibility for some money...
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1921
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Johnny Hardwick (Douglas MacLean) is the owner of the fastest horse in the next race. Although it's almost guaranteed that he...
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Molly
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1921
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Although Billy Fortune (Will Rogers) has a hankering for Hope Beecher (Irene Rich), he acknowledges that her suitor, Ben...
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1920
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Hairpins stars Enid Bennett as Muriel Rossmore, a housewife who has let her appearance go to seed. Muriel's husband Rex...
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1920
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1919
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As might be guessed by the title, The Busher is a baseball film. Charles Ray plays Ben Harding, a country greenhorn who is...
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1919
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