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1938
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Making a transcontinental plane flight in only thirteen hours was quite an achievement when this film was made in 1936 -- but...
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1936
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In this melodrama a chorine endeavors to become a star, but it isn't easy. Her wealthy boyfriend wants to marry her until...
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Betty Barlow
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1936
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After nearly a decade of nominal "leading lady" roles, Carole Lombard landed her first genuine starring vehicle with Hands...
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1935
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"Thou Shall Not Be Caught" is the commandment referred to in this low-budget melodrama ostensibly based on Ella Wendel, a New...
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Tessie Florin
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1933
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To look at his later dramatic work, one would never guess that award-winning director George Stevens got his start working on...
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1933
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In this romantic drama, a woman inadvertently assists a con artist in his scheme to rob a store manager and ends up in...
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Jeanie
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1933
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In this drama, an unmarried pregnant woman is forced to marry a complete stranger to maintain a sense of propriety. The man...
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1933
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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Glamorous Jean Harlow had her first big starring role in this standard story of an innocent small town young woman corrupted...
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Dot
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1932
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A pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd is the robust star of this logging camp melodrama which also featured a very young Ginger...
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Babe
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1932
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Clark Gable was officially elevated to stardom with this airborne MGM action-adventure, but good old Wallace Beery (whom...
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1932
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Angela
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1931
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In the space of 74 minutes, Helen Hayes goes from naïve French country lass to elderly harridan in Sin of Madelon Claudet. Is...
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1931
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In this drama, a married couple who own a speakeasy aspire to go legitimate and open a gas station; unfortunately, they are...
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Alice
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1931
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Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Mary Brian, who refuses to play the...
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Margy
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1931
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In this crime drama, a moll tells her imprisoned gangster lover that she is leaving him for another whom she really loves....
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Trixie
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1931
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Silent screen star John Gilbert had a tough time adapting to the talkies--not due to his voice, as is commonly believed, but...
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Mabel
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1931
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It is difficult to explain why the fly-by-night distribution firm of Road Show Pictures dragged the silent sagebrusher West...
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1931
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In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant. They frantically...
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1931
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War Nurse was based on the anonymous memoirs of an American nurse who served with the French Army during WWI. Since the...
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1930
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Diana Hoster
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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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Dot Lamar
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1930
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Agnes Lynch
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1930
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In this musical, a Marine gets a furlough in New York City and falls in love. He later returns and finds that a lazy...
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Nita
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1930
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1929
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Completed as a silent film, Cecil B. DeMille's The Godless Girl was quickly converted into a part-talkie by the simple...
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The Other Girl
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1929
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Pat
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1929
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In this crime drama, the girls of an escort service get into trouble with the police. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1929
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Vera
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1928
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1928
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Columbia's The Sideshow was obviously inspired by the success of such big-top dramas as First National's The Barker. The...
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1928
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This solid gangster flick from director Lewis Milestone was based on a stage play and earned a Best Picture nomination at the...
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Helen Hayes, an Entertainer
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1928
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Girl in the Pullman is a standard door-slamming farce in the fine tradition of Up in Mabel's Room and...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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As a follow-up to the successful marital farce Up in Mabel's Room, PDC Productions came out with a film version of the...
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1927
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His Jazz Bride was based on Beatrice Burton's novel The Flapper Bride, leaving no doubt as to the decade in which this film...
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Gloria Gregory
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1926
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The titular "man bait" is svelte shopgirl Madge Dreyer (Marie Prevost), who can't convince her customers and male co-workers...
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Madge Dreyer
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1926
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Jean Renoir's second film was this lavishly appointed adaptation of Emile Zola's novel Nana. Renoir does an admirable job...
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1926
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For Wives Only was based on the stage play The Critical Year. The story takes place in Vienna, where handsome Dr. Rittenhaus...
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Laura Rittenhaus
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1926
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Two graduates of Mack Sennett's "Bathing Beauties," Marie Prevost and Phyllis Haver, are co-starred in Warner Bros.' Other...
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Katherine Lambert
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1926
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Marcia Blake
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1926
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Back in the 1920's, "caveman" was a slang term for a man who treated women rough and made 'em love it. We have other names...
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Myra Gaylord
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1926
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This first film version of the Otto Harbach-William Collison stage farce Up in Mabel's Room was released in 1926, the same...
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Mabel Ainsworth
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1926
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LouLou Fleury
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1925
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This hilariously convoluted comedy was Lewis Milestone's first film as a director. He's also responsible for the screenplay,...
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Molly Brian
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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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Connemara Moore
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1925
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This romance is based on the best-selling novel by Robert Keable, which was a sequel to yet another novel, Simon Called...
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Julie Gamelyn
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1925
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1924
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1924
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Eve Quinn (Marie Prevost) is the classic, flirty, 1920s flapper. She easily outshines her quieter, more reserved half-sister,...
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Eve Quinn
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1924
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Marie Duplessis
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1924
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Nettie Dark
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1924
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Viennese doctor Monte Blue is madly in love with his wife Florence Vidor--so much so that many suspect that they aren't...
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Mizzi Stock
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1924
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In spite of its racy title, this society drama is really a down-to-earth look at the effects that sudden wealth has on a poor...
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Marjory Hadley
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1924
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Even though director Ernst Lubitsch had only been in the U.S. for a little over a year, his soon-to-be-famous "touch" was...
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Harriet
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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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Valeria Winship
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1924
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This mystery-melodrama had a lot of action and featured a good cast. Railroad magnate Luke Carson (William Worthington) has...
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Ruth Carson
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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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Although Moving Picture World claimed that director Sidney A. Franklin's work on this drama earned him a long-term contract...
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Marjorie
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1923
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This little romance, based on a story that ran in a magazine called Snappy Stories, doesn't have a lot to offer except for a...
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1922
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Gloria
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1922
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Freckle-faced juvenile star Wesley Barry was on a roll when he appeared in this Warner Brothers "special" -- his last several...
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Betty Benton
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1922
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Before her nasally voice was exposed, making her a more appropriate choice as a working class girl, Marie Prevost achieved...
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Betty Marmon
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1922
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This lighthearted comedy-drama, which has an unexpected twist at the end, was considered quite "modern" in its day. Although...
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1922
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Marie Prevost got her start as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty, and even though this romantic comedy runs rather short for a...
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1922
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Mack Sennett graduates Marie Prevost (star) and Clarence Badger (director) were reunited in the 5-reel feature...
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Patricia Parker
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1922
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Marie Prevost's star was on the ascendant when she made this simple little comedy. Liane Demarest (Prevost) is a flirtatious...
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1921
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This hilarious slapstick comedy from Mack Sennett finds Sam Smith (Ben Turpin), the resident of a small town, accused of...
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Marcelle Mansfield
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1921
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Polly Gordon (Marie Prevost) is a dowdy-looking young coed who seems destined to become an old maid. Then an aunt leaves her...
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Polly Gordon
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1921
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Newlyweds
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1920
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Instead of his usual two-reel format, Mack Sennett made a five-reel, feature-length film to spoof the recently ended World...
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1919
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